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Light-matter interaction : physics and engineering at the nanoscale /

This book provides advanced undergraduates, graduate students and researchers from diverse disciplines with the principal tools required to understand and contribute to rapidly advancing developments in light-matter interaction, centred at optical frequencies and length scales from a few hundred nan...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Weiner, John, 1943- (Autor), Nunes, Frederico (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edición:Second edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Historical synopsis of light-matter interaction
  • Elements of classical electrodynamics
  • Physical optics of plane waves
  • Energy flow in polarizable matter
  • The classical charged oscillator and the dipole antenna
  • Classical black-body radiation
  • Surface waves
  • Transmission lines and waveguides
  • Metamaterials
  • Momentum in fields and matter
  • Atom-light forces
  • Radiation in classical and quantal atoms
  • Appendices. Appendix A. Numerical constants and dimensions
  • Appendix B. Systems of units in electromagnetism
  • Appendix C. Review of vector calculus
  • Appendix D. Gradient, divergence, and curl in cylindrical and polar coordinates
  • Appendix E. Properties of phasors
  • Appendix F. Properties of the Laguerre functions
  • Appendix G. Properties of the Legendre functions
  • Appendix H. Properties of the Hermite polynomials.