Light Scattering and Nanoscale Surface Roughness Book

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 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.