Effective medium theory for random media composed of two-layered spheres

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2292-2297

  Zhang, Hao ^a   Zhu, Pengfei ^b   Xu, Yuchen ^a   Zhu, Heyuan ^a   Xu, Min ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; RANDOM PROCESSES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

COHERENT POTENTIAL APPROXIMATION; EFFECTIVE INDEX; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORIES; EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; ENERGY DENSITY; EWALD-OSEEN EXTINCTION THEOREM; LONG-WAVELENGTH LIMITS; MIE-SCATTERING; RANDOM MEDIA; RANDOM MEDIUM; SINGLE SCATTERING;

SPHERES;

EID: 80155203868     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.28.002292     Document Type: Article

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