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- Gives a complete overview of reflection of electromagnetic and particle waves by interfaces in this expanded and updated edition
- Is written in a tutorial-like style
- Dedicated website, with all figure files available, many in color
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics (SSAOPP, volume 87)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book deals with the reflection of electromagnetic and particle waves by interfaces. The interfaces can be sharp or diffuse. The topics of the book contain absorption, inverse problems, anisotropy, pulses and finite beams, rough surfaces, matrix methods, numerical methods, reflection of particle waves and neutron reflection. Exact general results are presented, followed by long wave reflection, variational theory, reflection amplitude equations of the Riccati type, and reflection of short waves. The Second Edition of the Theory of Reflection is an updated and much enlarged revision of the 1987 monograph. There are new chapters on periodically stratified media, ellipsometry, chiral media, neutron reflection and reflection of acoustic waves. The chapter on anisotropy is much extended, with a complete treatment of the reflection and transmission properties of arbitrarily oriented uniaxial crystals. The book gives a systematic and unified treatment reflection and transmission of electromagnetic and particle waves at interfaces. It is intended for physicists, chemists, applied mathematicians and engineers, and is written in a simple direct style, with all necessary mathematics explained in the text.
Keywords
- Inverse Problems of Reflection
- Matrix Methods of Reflection
- Neutron Reflection
- Numerical Methods of Reflection
- Periodically Stratified Media
- Reflection at Diffuse Interfaces
- Reflection from Rough Interfaces
- Reflection of Acoustic Waves
- Reflection of Electromagnetic Waves
- Reflection of Particle Waves
Reviews
“The book is didactically well written and can serve as a useful literature for professionals as well as for graduate students in the considered fields. … The appendix contains useful formulae for various quantities typically encountered in the wave transmission and reflection analyses.” (Vladimir Čadež, zbMATH 1347.78002, 2016)
Authors and Affiliations
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Victoria University of Wellington School of Chemical & Physical Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand
John Lekner
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Theory of Reflection
Book Subtitle: Reflection and Transmission of Electromagnetic, Particle and Acoustic Waves
Authors: John Lekner
Series Title: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23627-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-23626-1Published: 01 February 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79512-6Published: 30 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-23627-8Published: 13 January 2016
Series ISSN: 1615-5653
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6791
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XIV, 538
Number of Illustrations: 80 b/w illustrations, 43 illustrations in colour
Topics: Classical Electrodynamics, Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films, Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics