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Metal-dielectric films; three-dimensional composites; finite-difference time domain modeling; cermets; ENHANCED INFRARED-ABSORPTION; ADAPTIVE SILVER FILMS; ORGANIC SOLAR-CELLS; CERMET THIN-FILMS; STRUCTURAL-PROPERTIES; OPTICAL-PROPERTIES; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOCLUSTERS; SPECTROSCOPY; PERCOLATION
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Fabrication And Realistic Modeling Of Three-Dimensional Metal-Dielectric Composites, Mark D. Thoreson, Jieran R. Fang, Alexander V. Kildishev, Ludmila J. Prokopeva, Piotr Nyga, Uday K. Chettiar, Vladimir M. Shalaev, Vladimir P. Drachev
Fabrication And Realistic Modeling Of Three-Dimensional Metal-Dielectric Composites, Mark D. Thoreson, Jieran R. Fang, Alexander V. Kildishev, Ludmila J. Prokopeva, Piotr Nyga, Uday K. Chettiar, Vladimir M. Shalaev, Vladimir P. Drachev
Birck and NCN Publications
Historically, the methods used to describe the electromagnetic response of random, three-dimensional (3D), metal-dielectric composites (MDCs) have been limited to approximations such as effective-medium theories that employ easily-obtained, macroscopic parameters. Full-wave numerical simulations such as finite-difference time domain (FDTD) calculations are difficult for random MDCs due to the fact that the nanoscale geometry of a random composite is generally difficult to ascertain after fabrication. We have developed a fabrication method for creating semicontinuous metal films with arbitrary thicknesses and a modeling technique for such films using realistic geometries. We extended our two-dimensional simulation method to obtain realistic geometries of 3D …