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Scattering from Model Nonspherical Particles

Theory and Applications to Environmental Physics

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  • © 2003

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Authors:
  1. Ferdinando Borghese

    1. Dipartimento di Fisica della Materia e Tecnologie Fisiche Avanzate, Università di Messina, Messina, Italy

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  2. Paolo Denti

    1. Dipartimento di Fisica della Materia e Tecnologie Fisiche Avanzate, Università di Messina, Messina, Italy

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  3. Rosalba Saija

    1. Dipartimento di Fisica della Materia e Tecnologie Fisiche Avanzate, Università di Messina, Messina, Italy

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  • First coherent account of a well-known approach to the problem of light scattering by small anisotropic particles
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Physics of Earth and Space Environments (EARTH)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Multipole Fields

    • Ferdinando Borghese, Paolo Denti, Rosalba Saija
    Pages 1-30

  3. Propagation Through an Assembly of Nonspherical Scatterers

    • Ferdinando Borghese, Paolo Denti, Rosalba Saija
    Pages 31-47

  4. Multipole Expansions and Transition Matrix

    • Ferdinando Borghese, Paolo Denti, Rosalba Saija
    Pages 49-69

  5. Transition Matrix of Single and Aggregated Spheres

    • Ferdinando Borghese, Paolo Denti, Rosalba Saija
    Pages 71-93

  6. Scattering from Particles on a Plane Surface

    • Ferdinando Borghese, Paolo Denti, Rosalba Saija
    Pages 95-120

  7. Applications: Aggregated Spheres, Layered Spheres, and Spheres Containing Inclusions

    • Ferdinando Borghese, Paolo Denti, Rosalba Saija
    Pages 121-171

  8. Applications: Single and Aggregated Spheres and Hemispheres on a Plane Interface

    • Ferdinando Borghese, Paolo Denti, Rosalba Saija
    Pages 173-205

  9. Applications: Atmospheric Ice Crystals

    • Ferdinando Borghese, Paolo Denti, Rosalba Saija
    Pages 207-221

  10. Applications: Cosmic Dust Grains

    • Ferdinando Borghese, Paolo Denti, Rosalba Saija
    Pages 223-237

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 239-255
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About this book

The Mie theory is known to be the first approach to the electromagnetic scattering from homogeneous spheres endowed with all the accuracy of the Maxwell electromagnetic theory. It applies to spheres of arbitrary radius and refractive index and marks, therefore, noticeable progress over the approx­ imate approach of Rayleigh, which applies to particles much smaller than the wavelength. As a consequence, after the publication of the Mie theory in 1908, several scattering objects, even when their shape was known to be nonspherical, were described in terms of equivalent spherical scatterers. It soon became evident, however, that the morphological details of the actual particles were often too important to be neglected, especially in some wave­ length ranges. On the other hand, setting aside some particular cases in which the predictions of the Mie theory were acceptable, no viable alternative for the description of scattering from particles of arbitrary shape was at hand. This situation lasted, with no substantial changes, until about 25 years ago, when the exact solution to the problem of dependent scattering from aggregates of spheres was devised. This solution is a real improvement over the Mie theory because several processes that occur, e. g. , in the atmospheric aerosols and in the interstellar medium, can be interpreted in terms of clustering of otherwise spherical scatterers. Moreover, nonspherical particles may be so distributed (both in size and orientation) as to smooth out the individual scattering properties.

Reviews

From the reviews of the second edition:

"The book begins … with an expanded introduction to the mathematical details of vector spherical harmonics and multipole fields. … many researchers dealing with applications of plasmon-resonant nanostructures, biological imaging, and biosensing could extract a lot of useful information and recipes from this book. … Scattering From Model Nonspherical Particles is written by active researchers. … This fact increases the value and attraction of this monograph." (Nikolai Khlebtsov, Eos, September, 2008)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Fisica della Materia e Tecnologie Fisiche Avanzate, Università di Messina, Messina, Italy

    Ferdinando Borghese, Paolo Denti, Rosalba Saija

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Scattering from Model Nonspherical Particles

  • Book Subtitle: Theory and Applications to Environmental Physics

  • Authors: Ferdinando Borghese, Paolo Denti, Rosalba Saija

  • Series Title: Physics of Earth and Space Environments

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05330-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-05330-0Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1610-1677

  • Series E-ISSN: 1865-0678

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 255

  • Number of Illustrations: 40 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Classical Electrodynamics, Earth Sciences, general, Geophysics/Geodesy

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