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Terahertz Response of ZnS/Ge and ZnO/Ge Nanostructured Composites

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We present a new set of nanostructured composites which can exhibit a phenomenon known as surface plasmon resonance in a broad frequency range from the deep infrared to the terahertz region. The structures are composites of two different kinds of non-overlapping spheres. These spheres are made from a high refractive index nonplasmonic material and a Drude-like plasmonic material. Our results are explained in the context of the extended Maxwell–Garnett theory. The effective permittivity and refractive index of zinc sulfide/Ge and zinc oxide/Ge composites have been calculated over terahertz frequencies.

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The authors would like to acknowledge Yannopapas and Moroz for online EFFE2P code, a computer code to calculate the effective medium parameters.

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  1. Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Arak University, Arak, 38156-8-8349, Iran

    H. Sadeghi, A. Zolanvar, A. Ranjgar & R. Norouzi

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Sadeghi, H., Zolanvar, A., Ranjgar, A. et al. Terahertz Response of ZnS/Ge and ZnO/Ge Nanostructured Composites. Plasmonics 9, 327–333 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-013-9628-5

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