Improved effective medium approach: Application to metal nanocomposites

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Kochergin, Vladimir ^a   Zaporojtchenko, Vladimir ^b   Takele, Haile ^b   Faupel, Franz ^b   Föll, Helmut ^b  

^a Lake Shore Cryotronics Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; GOLD; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EFFECTIVE MEDIUM APPROXIMATION (EMA); GOLD NANOPARTICLES; METAL DIELECTRIC COMPOSITE MATERIALS; METAL NANOCOMPOSITES;

NANOCOMPOSITES;

EID: 33847729034     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2424406     Document Type: Article

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