Mean-field approximation of Mie scattering by fractal aggregates of identical spheres

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 33, 1997, Pages 8791-8797

  Botet, Robert ^a   Rannou, Pascal ^b   Cabane, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE; MIE THEORY;

EID: 0031581160     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.008791     Document Type: Article

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