Depolarization regions of nonzero volume for anisotropic, cubically nonlinear, homogenized nanocomposites

Journal of Nanophotonics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Cui, Jiajia ^a   MacKayb, Tom G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Depolarization dyadic; Ellipsoidal particles; Nonlinearity enhancement; Strong permittivity fluctuation theory

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DEPOLARIZATION; PERMITTIVITY;

COMPONENT MATERIALS; CONSTITUTIVE PARAMETERS; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; DEPOLARIZATION DYADICS; ELLIPSOIDAL PARTICLES; HOMOGENIZED COMPOSITES; NON-LINEARITY ENHANCEMENT; STRONG-PERMITTIVITY- FLUCTUATION THEORIES;

PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 34247886943     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19342608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2710449     Document Type: Article

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