Electrical control of the linear optical properties of particulate composite materials

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 463, Issue 2078, 2007, Pages 583-592

  Lakhtakia, Akhlesh ^a   Mackay, Tom G ^b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bruggeman formalism; Composite material; Electro optics; Homogenization; Pockels effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247865744     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2006.1783     Document Type: Article

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