Absorption and Scattering of Light by Small Particles
Treating absorption and scattering in equal measure, this self-contained, interdisciplinary study examines and illustrates how small particles absorb and scatter light. The authors emphasize that any discussion of the optical behavior of small particles is inseparable from a full understanding of the optical behavior of the parent material—bulk matter. To divorce one concept from the other is to render any study on scattering theory seriously incomplete.
Special features and important topics covered in this book include:
Absorption and Scattering of Light by Small Particles
Treating absorption and scattering in equal measure, this self-contained, interdisciplinary study examines and illustrates how small particles absorb and scatter light. The authors emphasize that any discussion of the optical behavior of small particles is inseparable from a full understanding of the optical behavior of the parent material—bulk matter. To divorce one concept from the other is to render any study on scattering theory seriously incomplete.
Special features and important topics covered in this book include:
BASIC THEORY.
Electromagnetic Theory.
Absorption and Scattering by an Arbitrary Particle.
Absorption and Scattering by a Sphere.
Particles Small Compared with the Wavelength.
Rayleigh-Gans Theory.
Geometrical Optics.
A Potpourri of Particles.
OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF BULK MATTER.
Classical Theories of Optical Constants.
Measured Optical Properties.
OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF PARTICLES.
Extinction.
Surface Modes in Small Particles.
Angular Dependence of Scattering.
A Miscellany of Applications.
Appendices.
References.
Index.
Craig F. Bohren is Distinguished Professor of Meteorology at
Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of two popular
scientific books, Clouds in a Glass of Beer (for which he received
the American Meteorological Society's Louis J. Battan Author's
Award) and What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks?, also available
from Wiley.
Donald R. Huffman is Regents Professor of Physics at the
University of Arizona. In 1983 he and colleague Wolfgang Kratschmer
produced the first sample of C60, buckminsterfullerene. The pair
was honored with the MRS medal and shared in the 1994
Hewlett-Packard Europhysics Prize.
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