Rainbows in Channeling of Charged Particles in Crystals and Nanotubes

• Main Authors: Nešković, Nebojša (Author), Petrović, Srdjan (Author), Ćosić, Marko (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Nanoscale Science and Technology, 25
• Subjects: Physics.; Nanoscale science.; Nanoscience.; Nanostructures.; Nanotechnology.; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Nanoscale Science and Technology.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Nanotechnology and Microengineering.

This book discusses the effects, modeling, latest results, and nanotechnology applications of rainbows that appear during channeling of charged particles in crystals and nanotubes. The authors begin with a brief review of the optical and particle rainbow effects followed by a detailed description of...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Rainbows
• Optical Rainbows
• Particle Rainbows
• Ion Channeling
• Analytical Approach to Ion Channeling
• Computer Simulation of Ion Channeling
• Crystal Rainbows
• Ion Channeling in Very Thin Crystals
• Crystal Rainbows as Elementary Catastrophes
• Theory of Crystal Rainbows
• Zero-Degree Focusing Effect
• Superfocusing Effect
• Rainbows in Proton Channeling in Silicon Crystals
• Rainbow Interaction Potentials
• Multiplicity of the Inverse Process
• Evolution of Crystal Rainbows
• Doughnut Effect
• Rainbows with Protons and Carbon Nanotubes
• Rainbows with a Straight Short Bundle of Nanotubes
• Rainbows with a Straight Short Nanotube with Defects
• Rainbows with a Bent Short Nanotube
• Rainbows with Straight Long Nanotubes
• Rainbows with Positrons and Carbon Nanotubes
• Rainbow Diagrams
• Quantum Theory of the Process
• Spatial Primary Rainbows
• Angular Primary Rainbows
• Anharmonicity of the Interaction.