Realistic representation of the frequency dependence of dielectric function of noble metals has a significant impact on the accuracy of description of their optical properties and farther applications in plasmonics, nanoscience, and nanotechnology. Drude-type models successfully used in describing material properties of silver, for gold are known to be not perfect above the threshold energy at ...

We consider meta materials made from a two-dimensional dielectric rod-type photonic crystal. The magnetic response is studied within the recently developed homogenization theory and we in particular study the effects of topology and inhomogeneous broadening. While topology itself mainly affects the Mie resonance frequency we find that the dispersion in the topological radius R of the dielectric...

The dependence of the metal gate work function on the underlying gate dielectric in advanced metal-oxide-semiconductor ~MOS! gate stacks was explored. Metal work functions on high-k dielectrics are observed to differ appreciably from their values on SiO2 or in vacuum. We applied the interface dipole theory to the interface between the gate and the gate dielectric of a MOS transistor and obtaine...

(23) J. G. Kirkwood, J. Chem. Phys., 4, 592 (1936). (24) W. Hauser, "Introduction to the Principles of Electromagnetism", Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1971, p 195. (25) Reference 24, p 145. (26) Reference 14, pp 225-226. (27) One of the reviewers pointed out that the local electric fleld produced by a point charge immersed in a continuous dielectric (without cavities) is simply 9/?. In this ...

Experimental results of dielectric investigations for binary mixtures of 2, 3-butanediol, 2, 3-BD, in2-ethyl-1-hexanol, 2EH, were reported for various mole fractions and temperatures (298.2-308.2) Kand they were used to calculate dielectric parameters such as Kirkwood correlation factor, excesspermittivity and Bruggeman parameter. These parameters were used to carry out temperaturedependent die...

Traveling Wave Tubes (TWTs) consist of different elements. The most important element of TWT is the RF circuit. RF circuits in helix TWTs need a dielectric support to hold the helix; this support also has an effect in electromagnetic properties of RF circuits. A novel dielectric support is proposed to reduce the second harmonic of helix TWTs. The dielectric support in this structure consists of...

Reflectance spectra may show very different and interesting shapes. The most interesting may be connected to Evans holes. Model calculations to reproduce this effect were done applying model dielectric function functions. When a weak oscillator appears within the frequency region of a strong one (i.e. between its TO and LO frequencies), its LO-mode frequency shifts towards higher wavenumbers. A...

Fluctuations of the dipole moment of a macroscopic dielectric sample are induced by thermal motions. The variance of the sample dipole moment, characterizing the extent of thermal fluctuations, is a decaying function of temperature for many polar liquids. This result is inconsistent with the Nyquist (fluctuation-dissipation) theorem predicting the variance of a macroscopic property to grow line...

Linear-response theory is used to derive a microscopic formula for the free-energy change of a solutesolvent system in response to a change in the charge distribution of the solutes. The formula expresses the change in the solvent polarization energy as a quadratic function of the changes in the partial charges at the atomic centers of the solute atoms. The average electrostatic potential at th...

In this review, the dielectric permittivity of dielectric mixtures is discussed in view of the spectral density representation method. A distinct representation is derived for predicting the dielectric properties, permittivities ε, of mixtures. The presentation of the dielectric properties is based on a scaled permittivity approach, ξ = (εe − εm)(εi − εm) −1, where the subscripts e, m and i den...