Optical Properties of Nanoparticle Systems

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 reflectance and transmittance of nanoparticle matter.

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt

1. Introduction
   
   2. Nanoparticle Systems and Experimental Optical Observables
   3. Interaction of Light with Matter: The Optical Material Function
   4. Fundamentals of Light Scattering by an Obstacle
   5. Mie's Theory for Single Spherical Particles
   6. Application of Mie's Theory
   7. Extensions of Mie's Theory
   8. Limitations of Mie's Theory: Size and Quantum Size Effects in Very Small Nanoparticles
   9. Beyond Mie's Theory I: Nonspherical Particles
   10. Beyond Mie's Theory II: The Generalized Mie Theory
   11. The Generalized Mie Theory applied to Different Systems
   12. Densely Packed Systems
   13. Nearfield and SERS
   14. Effective Medium Theories