Alexei A. Maradudin 
Light Scattering and Nanoscale Surface Roughness 

This book covers both experimental and theoretical aspects of nanoscale light scattering and surface roughness. Topics include: spherical particles located on a substrate; surface and buried interface roughness; surface roughness of polymer thin films; magnetic and thermal fluctuations at planar surfaces; speckle patterns; scattering of electromagnetic waves from a metal; multiple wavelength light scattering; nanoroughness standards.

Tabella dei contenuti

Characterization of Surface Roughness.- The Kirchhoff and Related Approximations.- Scattering and the Spatial Frequency Representation.- Rayleigh Hypothesis.- Small-Amplitude Perturbation Theory for One-Dimensionally Rough Surfaces.- Small-Amplitude Perturbation Theory for Two-Dimensional Surfaces.- Computer Simulations of Rough Surface Scattering.- Overview of Rough Surface Scattering.- Experimental Studies of Scattering from Weakly Rough Metal Surfaces.- Measuring Interfacial Roughness by Polarized Optical Scattering.- Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves from Nanostructured, Self-Affine Fractal Surfaces: Near-Field Enhancements.- Light Scattering by Particles on Substrates. Theory and Experiments.- Multiple Scattering of Waves by Random Distribution of Particles for Applications in Light Scattering by Metal Nanoparticles.- Multiple-Scattering Effects in Angular Intensity Correlation Functions.- Speckle Pattern in the Near Field.- Inverse Problems in Optical Scattering.- The Design of Randomly Rough Surfaces That Scatter Waves in a Specified Manner.