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We investigate the small-particle phonon-polariton response of several microstructures that are made of silicon carbide (SiC). Phonon polaritons can be excited in a wavelength region between 10 and 12 μm. Simple structures such as elliptical cylinders supp ...
We develop a theory for investigating atomic-scale dielectric permittivity profiles across interfaces between insulators. A local susceptibility chi(x;omega) is introduced to describe variations of the dielectric response over length scales of the order of ...
We study the infrared properties of the Si-SiO2 interface within a first-principles approach. In order to provide an atomic-scale description of the dielectric permittivity (both high-frequency and static) and of the infrared absorption at the interface, w ...
In this thesis various phenomena that appear if light interacts with objects having a size comparable to the wavelength are experimentally and theoretically analysed. The work is concentrated on the analysis of phase singularities in electromagnetic fields ...
Institut de Microtechnique, Université de Neuchâtel2004
We investigate numerically the spectrum of plasmon resonances for metallic nanowires with a non-regular cross-section in the 20-50 nm range. After briefly recalling the physical properties of metals at optical frequencies, we point out the intrinsic diffic ...
The do bias field. dependence of the dielectric loss in SrTi03 thin films deposited onto MgO substrate is investigated. The experimental data obtained at different frequencies of the ac field (8 and 16 GHz) from differently processed films (as deposited an ...
Ferroelectric thin films are widely studied nowadays as potential replacements for semiconductors in modern tunable microwave devices such as tunable filters, phase-shifters, frequency mixers, power dividers, etc. Recent progress in the deposition of compl ...
While in the paralectric phase of ferroelectrics, and in centrosymmetric materials in general, the dielectric tunability is symmetrical for positive and negative electric bias fields, in noncentrosymmetric materials this is not the case. By using the therm ...
A model of the quasi-Debye loss mechanism in SrTiO3 and Ba0.6Sr0.4TiO3 perovskite ferroelectrics at microwave frequencies is presented. The field dependence and the size of the field-induced quasi-Debye loss contribution in SrTiO3 and Ba0.6Sr0.4TiO3 system ...
The behavior of dielectric loss in SrTiO3 thin films at different microwave frequencies under the dc bias voltage applied is analyzed. Two types of differently processed SrTiO3 thin films (as deposited and oxygen-annealed) deposited by the pulse laser depo ...
