On limitations of conventional approaches to homogenization applied to uniaxial dielectric composite materials

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7404, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Mackay, Tom G ^a,b   Lakhtakia, Akhlesh ^b   Duncana, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bergman milton bounds; Bruggeman homogenization formalism; Hashin shtrikman bounds; Maxwell garnett homogenization formalism

Indexed keywords

BRUGGEMAN FORMALISM; BRUGGEMAN HOMOGENIZATION FORMALISM; CONSTITUENT MATERIALS; CONSTITUTIVE PARAMETERS; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; EFFECTIVE CONSTITUTIVE PARAMETERS; HASHIN-SHTRIKMAN BOUNDS; HOMOGENIZED COMPOSITES; MAXWELL GARNETT FORMALISM; MAXWELL-GARNETT; REAL PART; STRONG RESONANCE; UNIAXIAL DIELECTRIC;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; GARNETS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; THIN FILMS;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 70449646763     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.824619     Document Type: Conference Paper

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