Light Scattering and Nanoscale Surface Roughness [recurso electrónico] / edited by Alexei A. Maradudin.

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 Metal 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.

This volume presents up-to-date surveys of many aspects of rough surface scattering that are relevant to the scattering of electromagnetic waves from surfaces with nanoscale roughness. Both the direct and inverse scattering problems are considered, perturbative and computational approaches to their solution are described, and experimental methods and results are discussed.