Relaxing the assumption of an “infinite and homogenous background,” the dielectric response function of one-dimensional semiconducting nanowires embedded in a dielectric environment is calculated. It is shown that a high-κ (higher than semiconductor dielectric constant) dielectric environment reduces the screening by the free carriers inside the nanostructure, whereas a low dielectric constant ...

The effective dielectric function of metal-dielectric composites consisting of spherical particles randomly distributed in a matrix is numerically investigated. The study, based on the spectral density theory, shows that local field fluctuations may critically affect the composite performance for metamaterial applications. It appears that randomness significantly modifies the effective dielectr...

Robert L. Olmon,1 Brian Slovick,2 Timothy W. Johnson,3 David Shelton,2 Sang-Hyun Oh,3 Glenn D. Boreman,4 and Markus B. Raschke1,* 1Department of Physics, Department of Chemistry, and JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA 2Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL), University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA 3Department of Electrical and...

Abstract – In this paper, the effect of applied electric field on the damage due to partial discharges activity into the surroundings dielectrics of a narrow channel encapsulated within the volume of a dielectric material is evaluated using a kinetic model based on Particle in Cell - Monte Carlo Collision (PIC-MCC) model. After application of an electric field across a dielectric material which...

In the framework of the dielectric theory, we present the electron energy loss probability distribution calculated for a fast probe near cylindrical surfaces using a non-local dielectric function. The small size of the drilled holes in experiments and electron trajectories close to the interface make necessary the introduction of dispersion effects when describing the energy loss spectra. We co...

We study gate capacitance of deep submicron MOSFETs with high-K gate dielectrics. Schrödinger’s equation is solved by applying an open boundary condition at silicon-gate dielectric interface. Self-consistent numerical results reveal that accounting for wave function penetration into the gate dielectric causes the carrier distribution to be shifted closer to the gate dielectric. This effect incr...

Time-resolved measurements of the spectral dielectric function reveal new information about ultrafast phase transitions induced by femtosecond laser pulses in Sb-rich amorphous GeSb films. The excitation generates a nonthermal phase within 200 fs. The dielectric function of this phase differs from that of the crystalline phase, contrary to previous suggestions of a disorder-to-order transition....

We have used Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) to investigate the complex dielectric function of water solutions containing different ions. Using HCl and NaCl solutions with different concentrations we study the changes of the dielectric response introduced by the ions. We find a linear increase of the real and imaginary part of the dielectric function compared with pure water with i...