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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2016

Brian M. Wells ,
Wei Guo  and
Viktor A. Podolskiy
Brian M. Wells*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT 06117, USA Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell, One University Avenue, Lowell, MA 01854, USA
Wei Guo
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell, One University Avenue, Lowell, MA 01854, USA
Viktor A. Podolskiy
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell, One University Avenue, Lowell, MA 01854, USA
*
Address all correspondence to Brian M. Wells atbrwells@hartford.edu
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Abstract

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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Plasmonics, Photonics, and Metamaterials Research Letters
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MRS Communications , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , March 2016 , pp. 23 - 29
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2016 

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