Light Scattering and Nanoscale Surface Roughness

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Characterization of Surface Roughness

   • Jean M. Bennett

   Pages 1-33

3. The Kirchhoff and Related Approximations

   • A. G. Voronovich

   Pages 35-60

4. Scattering and the Spatial Frequency Representation

   • Colin J R Sheppard

   Pages 61-92

5. Rayleigh Hypothesis

   • Alexander G. Voronovich

   Pages 93-105

6. Small-Amplitude Perturbation Theory for One-Dimensionally Rough Surfaces

   • K. A. O’Donnell

   Pages 107-126

7. Small-Amplitude Perturbation Theory for Two-Dimensional Surfaces

   • Gérard Berginc

   Pages 127-179

8. Computer Simulations of Rough Surface Scattering

   • Joel T. Johnson

   Pages 181-210

9. Overview of Rough Surface Scattering

   • John A. DeSanto

   Pages 211-235

10. Experimental Studies of Scattering from Weakly Rough Metal Surfaces

    • K. A. O’Donnell

    Pages 237-258

11. Measuring Interfacial Roughness by Polarized Optical Scattering

    • Thomas A. Germer

    Pages 259-284

12. Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves from Nanostructured, Self-Affine Fractal Surfaces: Near-Field Enhancements

    • José A. Sánchez-Gil, José V. García-Ramos, Vincenzo Giannini, Eugenio R. Méndez

    Pages 285-304

13. Light Scattering by Particles on Substrates. Theory and Experiments

    • F. Moreno, J. M. Saiz, F. González

    Pages 305-340

14. Multiple Scattering of Waves by Random Distribution of Particles for Applications in Light Scattering by Metal Nanoparticles

    • Ka Ki Tse, Leung Tsang, Chi Hou Chan, Kung-Hau Ding

    Pages 341-370

15. Multiple-Scattering Effects in Angular Intensity Correlation Functions

    • Tamara A. Leskova, Alexei A. Maradudin

    Pages 371-408

16. Speckle Pattern in the Near Field

    • Jean-Jacques Greffet, Rémi Carminati

    Pages 409-433

17. Inverse Problems in Optical Scattering

    • Eugenio R. Méndez, Demetrio Macías

    Pages 435-465

18. The Design of Randomly Rough Surfaces That Scatter Waves in a Specified Manner

    • Alexei A. Maradudin

    Pages 467-488

19. Back Matter

    Pages 489-496

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All real surfaces, both those occurring naturally, and those fabricated artificially and with great care, are rough to some degree. It is therefore of interest, and often of importance, to know the extent to which this roughness affects physical p- cesses occurring at a surface. A particularly interesting class of physical processes occurring at a rough surface is the scattering of electromagnetic waves from it, or their transmission through it. In this case the degree of the surface roughness is referred to the wavelength of the waves incident on it. The study of the scattering of electromagnetic waves from rough surfaces has been actively carried out for more than a century now, since Rayleigh's inves- gations of the scattering of a monochromatic plane wave incident normally on a 1 sinusoidal interface between two different media. The first theoretical treatment of the scattering of an electromagnetic wave from a randomly rough surface was due to Mandel'shtam/ in the context of the scattering of light from a liquid s- face. In these pioneering studies the angular dependence of the intensity of the scattered field was calculated by perturbation theory as an expansion in powers of the surface profile function though the first nonzero term, a single scattering approximation.

• Planar
• Speckle
• distribution
• light scattering
• nanoparticle
• polymer
• thin films

From the reviews:

"This book presents an up-to-date survey of theoretical and experimental studies of rough surface scattering of electromagnetic waves. … It should be of interest to scientists and graduate students, especially those investigating areas in nanotechnology such as the effect of light scattering of quasi-particle nonlinear optics involving surface plasmons. This book can be used as a reference for a course on nanotechnology … ." (Hsiung Hsu, Optics and Photonics News, May, 2007)

• Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, USA

  Alexei A. Maradudin

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