Topics in Theoretical and Computational Nanoscience From Controlling Light at the Nanoscale to Calculating Quantum Effects with Classical Electrodynamics /

• Main Author: McMahon, Jeffrey Michael (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Series: Springer Theses
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Chemistry, Physical and theoretical.; Physics.; Theoretical and Computational Chemistry.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.

Interest in structures with nanometer-length features has significantly increased as experimental techniques for their fabrication have become possible. The study of phenomena in this area is termed nanoscience, and is a research focus of chemists, pure and applied physics, electrical engineers, and...

Table of Contents:

• INTRODUCTION
• BASIC ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY
• THEORETICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL METHODS
• CORRELATED SINGLE-NANOPARTICLE CALCULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS
• OPTIMAL SERS NANOSTRUCTURES
• NANOSTRUCTURED METAL FILMS
• OPTICAL CORRALS
• CONCLUSIONS AND OUTLOOK
• DRUDE PLUS TWO LORENTZ POLE (D2L) DIELECTRIC MODEL PARAMETERS
• DERIVATION OF THE FINITE-ELEMENT FUNCTIONAL
• DERIVATION OF THE HYDRODYNAMIC DRUDE MODEL
• DERIVATION OF NONLOCAL FINITE-DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS.- .