<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>10</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">V. Yannopapas</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A. Modinos</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">N. Stefanou</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Effect of moderate disorder on the absorbance of plasma spheres distributed in a host dielectric medium</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">NATO ASI &quot;Photonic Crystals and Light Localization in the 21st Century</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2001</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kluwer Academic Publishers</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hersonisos, Crete</style></pub-location><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">383-387</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Using a coherent-potential approximation, in conjunction with the on-shell method we developed for the study of photonic crystals, we study the effect of moderate disorder on light absorption by composite materials consisting of plasma spheres embedded in a host dielectric medium. We analyze our results by reference to the properties of a single sphere and to those of an infinite crystal. We find, in particular, that the absorption of light by a thin slab (a two-dimensional array of plasma spheres) is affected more strongly by disorder, in comparison to the absorbance of thick slabs consisting of many layers of spheres.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>