Fabrication and realistic modeling of three-dimensional metal-dielectric composites

Journal of Nanophotonics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Thoreson, Mark D ^a,b   Fang, Jieran ^a   Kildishev, Alexander V ^a   Shalaev, Vladimir M ^c   Drachev, Vladimir P ^d   Prokopeva, Ludmila J ^e   Nyga, Piotr ^a   Chettiar, Uday K ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES   (Russian Federation)

^d MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cermets; finite difference time domain modeling; metal dielectric films; three dimensional composites

Indexed keywords

CERMETS; DIELECTRIC FILMS; FABRICATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GEOMETRY; METALS;

EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORIES; FINITE -DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS (FDTD); FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN MODELING; METAL-DIELECTRIC COMPOSITES; METAL-DIELECTRIC FILMS; SEMICONTINUOUS METAL FILMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPOSITES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 80053903432     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19342608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3590208     Document Type: Article

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