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Dielectric response of spherical particles of graded materials

Soft Condensed Matter 2007-05-23 v4 Materials Science Biological Physics Optics

Abstract

We have studied the effective response of composites of spherical particles with a dielectric profile which varies along the radius of the particles. We developed a differential effective dipole theory to compute the dipole moment of individual spherical particle and hence the effective dielectric response of a dilute suspension. The theory has been applied to two model dielectric profiles. Moreover, we compare the approximate results with the exact results of the power-law profile and the agreement is excellent.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0211532,
  title  = {Dielectric response of spherical particles of graded materials},
  author = {K. W. Yu and G. Q. Gu and J. P. Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0211532},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

See cond-mat/0507325: The ad hoc method of the differential effective dipole approximation (DEDA) derived in the previous versions has been shown to be exact from a first-principles approach