Spectral representation of the effective dielectric constant of graded composites

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2005-06-17

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0506424v1

Phys. Rev. E 72, 016613 (2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

Physical Review E, submitted for publications

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.72.016613

We generalize the Bergman-Milton spectral representation, originally derived for a two-component composite, to extract the spectral density function for the effective dielectric constant of a graded composite. This work has been motivated by a recent study of the optical absorption spectrum of a graded metallic film [Applied Physics Letters, 85, 94 (2004)] in which a broad surface-plasmon absorption band has been shown to be responsible for enhanced nonlinear optical response as well as an attractive figure of merit. It turns out that, unlike in the case of homogeneous constituent components, the characteristic function of a graded composite is a continuous function because of the continuous variation of the dielectric function within the constituent components. Analytic generalization to three dimensional graded composites is discussed, and numerical calculations of multilayered composites are given as a simple application.

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