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Homogenization of nanowire-based composites with anisotropic unit-cell and layered substructure

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We analyze the optical properties of composite materials that combine nanowire and nanolayer platforms. We revisit effective-medium theory (EMT) description of wire materials with high filling fraction positioned in anisotropic unit cells and present a simple numerical technique to extend Maxwell-Garnett formalism in this limit. We also demonstrate that the resulting EMT can be combined with transfer-matrix technique to adequately describe photonic band gap behavior, previously observed in epitaxially grown semiconductor multilayer nanowires.

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This work was partially supported by the US Army research office (Grant no. W911NF-12-1-0533).

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT, 06117, USA

    Brian M. Wells

  2. Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell, One University Avenue, Lowell, MA, 01854, USA

    Brian M. Wells, Wei Guo & Viktor A. Podolskiy

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Wells, B.M., Guo, W. & Podolskiy, V.A. Homogenization of nanowire-based composites with anisotropic unit-cell and layered substructure. MRS Communications 6, 23–29 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1557/mrc.2016.5

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