Optical Properties of Nanoparticle Systems: Mie and Beyond (Hardcover)

1. Introduction
2. Nanoparticle Systems and Experimental Optical Observables
3. Interaction of Light with Matter: The Optical Material Function
4. Fundamentals of Light Scattering by an Obstacle
5. Mie's Theory for Single Spherical Particles
6. Application of Mie's Theory
7. Extensions of Mie's Theory
8. Limitations of Mie's Theory: Size and Quantum Size Effects in Very Small Nanoparticles
9. Beyond Mie's Theory I: Nonspherical Particles
10. Beyond Mie's Theory II: The Generalized Mie Theory
11. The Generalized Mie Theory applied to Different Systems
12. Densely Packed Systems
13. Nearfield and SERS
14. Effective Medium Theories