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Interference of scattered waves and mixing rules for group velocities in nanocomposite materials

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Mixing rules for group velocities in nanocomposite materials with different architecture, including lamellar-inhomogeneous nanotextures, Maxwell Garnett structures, and one-dimensional photonic crystals, are derived and analyzed. The group velocity can be controlled for such composite structures by changing nanocrystal sizes and varying the dielectric properties and the volume-filling fractions of the constituent materials. The interference of scattered waves in structures with a spatial scale of optical inhomogeneities comparable to the radiation wavelength gives rise to new physical phenomena that cannot be described in terms of the effective-medium approximation.

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Translated from Zhurnal Éksperimental’no\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l}\) i Teoretichesko\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l}\) Fiziki, Vol. 126, No. 1, 2004, pp. 47–53.

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Zheltikov, A.M. Interference of scattered waves and mixing rules for group velocities in nanocomposite materials. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 99, 37–42 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1787076

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