Department of Physics;
King’s College London;
Strand;
London WC2R 2LS;
UK;
Present address:School of Electrical Engineering;
Tel Aviv University;
Tel Aviv 69978;
Israel;
Department of Physics and Applied Physics;
University of Massachusetts Lowell;
One University Ave;
Lowell;
MA 01854;
USA;
Present address:Department of Physics;
University of Hartford;
West Hartford;
CT 06117;
USA;
composite electromagnetic materials; non-local optical properties; plasmonic metamaterials; quantum electrodynamics; spontaneous emission;