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Epioptics-8 : Proceedings of the 33rd Course of the International School of Solid State Physics, Erice, Italy, 20-26 July 2004.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 8th Epioptics Workshop, held at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Sicily. The book assesses the capabilities of state-of-the-art optical techniques in elucidating the fundamental electronic and structural properties o...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cricenti, Antonio
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2006.
Colección:Science and Culture Series - Physics.
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  • Preface ; Ab-initio Theories for the Calculation of Electronic Excited States Properties ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Density Functional theory: ground state properties ; 3. The GW approach: study of charged excitations ; 4. Optical properties: study of neutral excitations.
  • 5. Conclusions Acknowledgments ; References ; Theory of Surface Second Harmonic Generation ; 1. Introduction ; 2. SHG and Surfaces ; 3. Intensity of Surface SHG ; 4. Quantum Mechanical Theory of the Susceptibility ; 5. Symmetry.
  • 6. Physical Origin of the Nonlinear Surface Response 7. A Simple Model ; 8. SHG Radiation ; 9. Refinements ; 10. Nanoparticles ; 11. Summary ; Acknowledgements ; References ; Excitation of Multiple Plasmon in Optical Second-Harmonic Generation ; 1. Introduction.
  • 2. Experimental details 3. Experimental results and discussion ; 4. Summary ; References ; Non-linear Optical Probes of Biological Surfaces ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Sum-frequency generation spectroscopy of lipid monolayers ; 3. CARS microscopy of vesicles. ; 4. Conclusions and outlook.
  • Acknowledgments References ; Ab Initio Study of the Ge(111): Sn Surface ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Method ; 3. Results ; 4. Conclusions ; Acknowledgments ; References ; Lifetimes of Excited States ; 1 Introduction ; 2 Inherent scattering processes.