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Optical Properties of Metal-Dielectric Composites

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Metamaterials consist of artificially structured units that are made from naturally-occurring substances, including dielectrics, semiconductors and metals. Although the character of the composite architecture can be quite distinct from its constituents, it is essential to study the properties of these constituent materials in order to explore further the design and implementation of metamaterials as a whole. In Chap. 2 we review the optical properties of dielectrics and metals, with additional emphasis placed on the modification of their performance when particle sizes reach down to the nanoscale. In the last section of the chapter, we discuss the physics of metal-dielectric composites along with a number of mixing rules for evaluating the effective parameters of such composite media.

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Cai, W., Shalaev, V. (2010). Optical Properties of Metal-Dielectric Composites. In: Optical Metamaterials. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1151-3_2

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