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Incremental Maxwell Garnett formalism for homogenizing particulate composite media
Author(s) -
Lakhtakia Akhlesh
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1098-2760(199803)17:4<276::aid-mop17>3.0.co;2-3
Subject(s) - formalism (music) , composite number , microwave , dielectric , materials science , physics , condensed matter physics , composite material , optoelectronics , quantum mechanics , art , musical , visual arts
Based on the Maxwell Garnett (MG) formalism for homogenizing particulate composite media, an incremental MG (IMG) formalism is developed. Whereas the MG formalism is suitable for dilute composite media, the IMG formalism is phenomenologically valid even for dense composite media because it homogenizes incrementally over a succession of several intermediate dilute composite media. IMG algorithms are presented for the simple dielectric‐in‐dielectric, as well as the complicated bianisotropic‐in‐bianisotropic composite media. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 17: 276–279, 1998.