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Scattering from Model Nonspherical Particles

Theory and Applications to Environmental Physics

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  • © 2007

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Authors:
  1. Ferdinando Borghese

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

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  2. Paolo Denti

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

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  3. Rosalba Saija

    1. Dipartimento di Fisica della Materia e Tecnologie, 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
  • Extended new edition incorporating the author's recent work on cosmic dust grains
  • Contains deeply revised chapters, additional chapters and new applications of the theory
  • 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 (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIX
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  2. Multipole Fields

    • Ferdinando Borghese, Paolo Denti, Rosalba Saija
    Pages 1-31

  3. Propagation Through an Assembly of Nonspherical Scatterers

    • Ferdinando Borghese, Paolo Denti, Rosalba Saija
    Pages 33-61

  4. Radiation Force, Radiation Torque and Thermal Emission

    • Ferdinando Borghese, Paolo Denti, Rosalba Saija
    Pages 63-71

  5. Multipole Expansions and Transition Matrix

    • Ferdinando Borghese, Paolo Denti, Rosalba Saija
    Pages 73-108

  6. Transition Matrix of Single and Aggregated Spheres

    • Ferdinando Borghese, Paolo Denti, Rosalba Saija
    Pages 109-134

  7. Scattering from Particles on a Plane Surface

    • Ferdinando Borghese, Paolo Denti, Rosalba Saija
    Pages 135-163

  8. 7 Applications: Aggregated Spheres, Layered Spheres, and Spheres Containing Inclusions

    • Ferdinando Borghese, Paolo Denti, Rosalba Saija
    Pages 165-244

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

    • Ferdinando Borghese, Paolo Denti, Rosalba Saija
    Pages 245-281

  10. Applications: Atmospheric Ice Crystals

    • Ferdinando Borghese, Paolo Denti, Rosalba Saija
    Pages 283-297

  11. Applications: Cosmic Dust Grains

    • Ferdinando Borghese, Paolo Denti, Rosalba Saija
    Pages 299-329

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 331-348
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About this book

Since the publication of the ?rst edition of this book, we have become deeply involved in astrophysics research, particularly the study of the interstellar medium. Modeling scattering particles as layered spheres or as aggregates of spherical scatterers, expanding the electromagnetic ?eld in a series of vector multipole ?elds, and resorting to the T-matrix approach for averaging over the orientations of a dispersion of nonspherical particles are e?ective tools for studying scattering theory, which we described and extensively applied in the ?rst edition of this book. In fact, these tools also proved to be adequate for studying cosmic dust, even when they must be applied to a new range of current problems. We refer, for example, to the description of mechanical interaction of electromagnetic radiation with cosmic dust grains, which is believed to be of paramount importance in determining the dynamics of the grains. Since this book is conceived as a summary of our work, the desire to encompassallnewtopicsledustorevisebothitscontentanditsstructure. Of course, beyond the changes that we outline below, all chapters were carefully revised. Marginal changes and additions were made in Chap. 1, while Chap. 2 has been substantially revised to cover the light of general polarization and, in particular, with thedescription ofthestate ofpolarization ofelectromagnetic waves of general form. In this chapter we reserved ample space for the r- resentation of the kinematics of the scattering processes both in the plane of scattering and in the meridional planes.

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, Università di Messina, Messina, Italy

    Ferdinando Borghese, Paolo Denti, Rosalba Saija

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