Departmental Papers (ESE)
Abstract
Unusual scattering effects from tiny spherical particles may be obtained when concentric shells are designed by pairing together "complementary" double-negative, single-negative, and/or standard double-positive materials. By embedding these highly polarizable scatterers in a host medium one can achieve a bulk medium with interesting effective parameters. Some physical insights and justifications for the anomalous polarizability of these concentric spherical nanoparticles and the effective parameters of the bulk composite medium are discussed.
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
May 2005
Keywords
metamaterials, nanoparticles, electromagnetic wave scattering, electromagnetic wave polarisation, polaritons
Date Posted: 19 July 2007
This document has been peer reviewed.
Comments
Copyright 2005 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. Reprinted in Journal of Applied Physics, Volume 97, Issue 9, Article 094310, May 2005, 12 pages.
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1884757