Localization and Absorption of Light in 2D Composite Metal-Dielectric Films at the Percolation Threshold

Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

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14 page latex, 3 ps figures. submitted

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10.1088/0953-8984/12/3/307

We study in this paper the localization of light and the dielectric properties of thin metal-dielectric composites at the percolation threshold and around a resonant frequency where the conductivities of the two components are of the same order. In particular, the effect of the loss in metallic components are examined. To this end, such systems are modelized as random $L-C$ networks, and the local field distribution as well as the effective conductivity are determined by using two different methods for comparison: an exact resolution of Kirchoff equations, and a real space renormalization group method. The latter method is found to give the general behavior of the effective conductivity but fails to determine the local field distribution. It is also found that the localization still persists for vanishing losses. This result seems to be in agreement with the anomalous absorption observed experimentally for such systems.

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