Subwavelength multilayer dielectrics: Ultrasensitive transmission and breakdown of effective-medium theory

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 113, Issue 24, 2014, Pages

  Herzig Sheinfux, Hanan ^a   Kaminer, Ido ^a   Plotnik, Yonatan ^a   Bartal, Guy ^a   Segev, Mordechai ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTILAYERS; PERCOLATION (COMPUTER STORAGE); REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEISMIC WAVES;

ALTERNATING LAYERS; DIELECTRIC STRUCTURE; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORIES; MULTILAYER DIELECTRICS; MULTILAYER STRUCTURES; SUB-WAVELENGTH STRUCTURES; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTIONS; ULTRA SENSITIVES;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 84918498794     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.243901     Document Type: Article

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