Optical Properties of Metal Clusters
By: by Uwe Kreibig, Michael Vollmer
Contributors: Vollmer, Michael, author; SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: Springer Series in Materials Science -- 25
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Imprint: Springer
Published: 1995
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 535
ISBN-13: 9783662091098
Subjects: Materials science; Photonics Laser Technology; Condensed Matter Physics; Physical organic chemistry; Physical and theoretical Chemistry; Inorganic Chemistry; Solid state physics; Materials; Metallic Materials
Description: Optical Properties of Metal Clusters deals with the electronic structure of metal clusters determined optically. Clusters - as state intermediate between molecules and the extended solid - are important in many areas, e.g. in air pollution, interstellar matter, clay minerals, photography, heterogeneous catalysis, quantum dots, and virus crystals. This book extends the approaches of optical molecular and solid-state methods to clusters, revealing how their optical properties evolve as a function of size. Cluster matter, i.e. extended systems of many clusters - the most frequently occuring form - is also treated. The combination of reviews of experimental techniques, lists of results and detailed descriptions of selected experiments will appeal to experts, newcomers and graduate students in this expanding field.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Theoretical Considerations; title: 3. Experimental Methods; title: 4. Experimental Results and Discussion; title: A.1 Tables: Optical Spectroscopy Experiments with Metal Clusters; title: A.2 Survey of Optical Spectra of Elemental Metal Clusters and Chain-Aggregates; title: A.3 Mie Computer Program; title: References.