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Properties of surface plasmon polaritons at the interface formed in a dielectric matrix by a region without inclusions and by a region with metallic nanoinclusions have been investigated. The region with inclusions is a nanocomposite in which the dielectric constant has resonance behavior caused by the plasmon resonance of metallic nanoinclusions. The frequency dependences of the propagation constant and the transverse components of the wave vector, depth of penetration, mean free path, group velocity, and longitudinal energy flux have been obtained based on the solution to the boundary-value problem and numerical analysis. A substantial influence of the dielectric constant of the matrix of the structure on the wave characteristics of surface polaritons has been shown.
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Original Russian Text © D.A. Evseev, D.I. Sementsov, 2015, published in Fizika Metallov i Metallovedenie, 2015, Vol. 116, No. 8, pp. 787–794.
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Evseev, D.A., Sementsov, D.I. Plasmon polaritons at the boundary between a dielectric and a nanocomposite with metallic inclusions. Phys. Metals Metallogr. 116, 745–752 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031918X15080037
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