Theory of Reflection Reflection and Transmission of Electromagnetic, Particle and Acoustic Waves /

• Main Author: Lekner, John (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2016.
• Series: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, 87
• Subjects: Physics.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Atoms.; Surfaces (Physics).; Interfaces (Physical sciences).; Thin films.; Optoelectronics.; Plasmons (Physics).; Materials > Surfaces.; Optics and Electrodynamics.; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films.; Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.; Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics.

This book deals with the reflection of electromagnetic and particle waves by interfaces. The interfaces can be sharp or diffuse. The topics of the book contain absorption, inverse problems, anisotropy, pulses and finite beams, rough surfaces, matrix methods, numerical methods,  reflection of particl...

Table of Contents:

• From the Contents: Preface
• Introducing Reflection
• Exact Results
• Reflection of Long Waves
• Variational Theory
• Equations for the Reflection Amplitudes
• Reflection of Short Waves
• Anisotropy
• Absorption
• Inverse Problems
• Pulses, Finite Beams.