Filling the gap for a description of the optical properties of small particles with sizes less than 1000 nm and to provide a comprehensive overview on the spectral behavior of nanoparticulate matter, this is the most up-to-date reference on the optical physics of nanoparticle systems. The author, an expert in the field with both academic and industrial experience, concentrates on the linear optical properties, elastic light scattering and absorption of single nanoparticles and on the reflectance and transmittance of nanoparticle matter.
From the contents:
Nanoparticle Systems and Experimental Optical Observables
Interaction of Light with Matter: The Optical Material Function
Fundamentals of Light Scattering by an Obstacle
Mie’s Theory for Single Spherical Particles
Application of Mie’s Theory.
Extensions of Mie’s Theory.
Limitations of Mei’s Theory: Size and Quantum Size Effects in Very Small Nanoparticles
Beyond Mie’s Theory I: Nonspherical Particles
Beyond Mie’s Theory II: The Generalized Mie Theory
The Generalized Mie Theory applied to Different Systems
Densely Packed Systems.
Nearfield and SERS
Effective Medium Theories
About the Author
Dr. Michael Quinten works as Chief Technical Coordinator at FRT GmbH in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany. Having obtained his diploma degree and Ph. D. in physics (1989) at the University of Saarland, Saarbruecken, Germany, he joined the Technical University RWTH Aachen in 1990. He then spent four years at several universities in Graz, Austria, Chemnitz, Aachen, Saarbruecken and Bochum, Germany. During this academic period from 1983 to 2000, he authored 50 scientific publications with topics in optical properties of nanoparticles, nanoparticle materials and aerosols. In 2001 he joined the ETA-Optik GmbH, Germany, where he first worked in research and development of integrated optics components and later became product manager in the Colour and Coatings Division. In 2007 he moved to FRT GmbH where he is responsible for the optical sensor technology division.
