Preface
1. Introduction
1.1 Surface Plasmon Resonance
1.2 Percolation Threshold: Singularities in Metal-dielectric
Composites
2. Conducting Stick Composites and Left Handed Metamaterials
2.1 Metamaterial
2.2 Conductivity and Dielectric Cotant: Effective Medium Theory
2.3 High-frequency Respoe
2.3.1 Scattering of electromagnetic wave by conducting stick
2.3.2 High-frequency effective dielectric function
2.4 Giant Enhancements of Local Electric Fields
2.5 Optical Magnetism, Left-handed Optical Materials and
Superresolution
2.5.1 Analytical theory of magnetic plasmon resonances
2.5.2 Numerical simulatio of two-dimeional nanowire structures
2.5.3 Capacitance and inductance of two parallel wires
2.6 Planar Nanowire Composites
3. Semicontinuous Metal Films
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Giant Field Fluctuatio
3.2.1 Lattice model
3.2.2 Numerical method
3.2.3 Field distributio on semicontinuous metal films
3.3 Localization of Surface Plasmo
3.3.1 Localization length and average inteity of localelectric
field
3.3.2 High-order moments of local electric fields
3.3.3 Properties of the localized eigenmodes
3.3.4 Scaling theory of giant field fluctuatio
3.4 Anomalous Light Scattering from Semicontinuous Metal Films
3.4.1 Rayleigh scattering
3.4.2 Scaling properties of correlation function
3.5 Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering SERS
3.6 Giant Enhancements of Optical Nonlinearities
3.7 Percolation-enhanced Nonlinear Scattering: High Harmonic
Generation
4. Optical Properties of Metal-dielectric Fih: Beyond Quasistatic
Approximation
4.1 Generalized Ohm''s Law GOL and Basic Equatio
4.2 Tramittance, Reflectance, and Absorptance
4.3 Numerical Simulatio of Local Electric and Magnetic Fields
4.4 Spatial Moments of Local Electric and Magnetic Fields
4.5 Extraordinary Optical Tramittance EOT
4.5.1 Resonant tramittance
4.5.2 Light-induced and light-controlled tramittance
4.5.3 Discussion
5. Electromagnetic Properties of Metal-dielectric Crystals
5.1 Metal-dielectric Composites
5.2 Electromagnetic Crystals
5.2.1 Cubic lattice of metal spheres
5.2.2 A wire-mesh electromagnetic crystal
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