Effective optical properties of plasmonic nanocomposites

Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 727-741

  Etrich, Christoph ^a   Fahr, Stephan ^a   Hedayati, Mehdi Keshavarz ^b   Faupel, Franz ^b   Elbahri, Mady ^b,c   Rockstuhl, Carsten ^a,d  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Homogenization; Metamaterials; Nanocomposite; Plasmonics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894788790     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma7020727     Document Type: Article

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