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Enhanced Retroreflection Of Light From Rough Metal Surfaces, Sivakumar Natarajan
Enhanced Retroreflection Of Light From Rough Metal Surfaces, Sivakumar Natarajan
Masters Theses
The optical constants n and k measured by Johnson and Christy (1972) for the noble metals (gold, silver and copper) are used to analyze the relationship between the surface characteristics and the peak height and half-width of the backscattering peak which is observed in the angular distribution of the intensity of diffusely reflected light at a vacuum-metal interface in a direction antiparallel to the original incident beam. Surfaces with surface roughness of heights less than 200 A to 300 A will be considered and a recently developed perturbation treatment will be used in these studies.
The backscattering of light from …