Plasmon modes and negative refraction in metal nanowire composites

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 735-745

  Podolskiy, Viktor A ^a   Sarychev, Andrey K ^b   Shalaev, Vladimir M ^b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; REFRACTION; RESONANCE; THIN FILMS;

DISCRETE-DIPOLE APPROXIMATION; METAL NANOWIRES; PERCOLATION COMPOSITES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0344133104     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.000735     Document Type: Article

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