On the effective permittivity of silver-insulator nanocomposites

Journal of Nanophotonics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Mackay, Tom G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bruggeman formalism; Homogenization; Negative permittivity

Indexed keywords

HOMOGENIZATION METHOD; SILVER;

BRUGGEMAN FORMALISM; CONSTITUENT MATERIALS; EFFECTIVE PERMITTIVITY; NEGATIVE PERMITTIVITY; SMALL PARTICLES;

PERMITTIVITY;

EID: 34247867434     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19342608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2472372     Document Type: Article

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