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Light Scattering and Nanoscale Surface Roughness

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Alexei A. Maradudin

    1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, USA

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  • Covers both experimental and theoretical aspects of nanoscale light scattering and surface roughness

Part of the book series: Nanostructure Science and Technology (NST)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  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.

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"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)

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

    Alexei A. Maradudin

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