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    The document discusses dispersion in materials, specifically the plasma model of the dielectric function of a free electron gas. It explains that a plasma model treats metals as a gas of free electrons moving against a fixed background of positive ion cores. The model derives the dispersion relation for electromagnetic wave propagation in a free electron gas. It shows that propagation is only allowed for frequencies above the plasma frequency ωp, below which the wave is evanescent.

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    Lecture 4: Dispersion in Materials

    Dr. Mandeep Singh,


    Ph.D. IIT Roorkee, Post doc. IISc Bangalore
    Assistant Professor,
    Department of ECE,
    NITK Surathkal
    Dielectric Function of Free Electron Gas – Plasma Model

    • The optical properties of metals can be explained by a plasma model, where


    a gas of free electrons of number density ‘n’ moves against a fixed
    background of positive ion cores.
    • Assume an electron of the plasma sea is subjected to an external electric
    field E:
    Contd …
    Contd …

    Substituting ‘P’ in above Equation


    Dispersion Relation

    Fig. The dispersion relation of the free electron gas. Electromagnetic wave
    propagation is only allowed for ω > ωp.
    Thank You

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