Effective constitutive parameters of linear nanocomposites in the long-wavelength regime

Journal of Nanophotonics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  MacKay, Tom G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bruggeman; Extended depolarization dyadic; Inverse homogenization; Maxwell Garnett; Metamaterials; Strong property fluctuation theory

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DEPOLARIZATION; FILMS; METAMATERIALS; VACUUM APPLICATIONS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BRUGGEMAN; DEPOLARIZATION DYADICS; INVERSE HOMOGENIZATION; MAXWELL-GARNETT; STRONG-PROPERTY-FLUCTUATION THEORY;

NANOCOMPOSITES;

EID: 80755158928     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19342608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3626857     Document Type: Article

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