Optical Processes in Solids
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 10, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780521554473
Subjects: Applied optics; Condensed matter physics (liquids & solids); Science/Mathematics; Science; Physics; Solid State Physics; Science / Physics; Optical properties; Solids
First sentence: Early in the nineteenth century, people already realized that light was better described by a wave model than by a corpuscular model on the basis of experimental confirmation of the interference effect.