Description of dispersion properties of metals by means of the critical points model and application to the study of resonant structures using the FDTD method

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 7152-7158

  Vial, Alexandre ^a   Laroche, Thierry ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE TROYES   (France)

^b FEMTO ST INSTITUTE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; PERMITTIVITY; RESONANCE;

CRITICAL POINTS MODELS; DRUDE-LORENTZ MODELS; METALLIC INTERMEDIATE LAYERS; REALISTIC RESONANT STRUCTURES; RESONANT STRUCTURES;

DISPERSIONS;

EID: 36448994485     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/40/22/043     Document Type: Article

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