Efficient light-scattering calculations for aggregates of large spheres

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 2785-2793

  Saija, Rosalba ^a   Iatí, Maria Antonia ^a   Denti, Paolo ^a   Borghese, Ferdinando ^a   Giusto, Arianna ^a   Sindoni, Orazio I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b EDGEWOOD CHEMICAL BIOLOGICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SPHERES;

LARGE-SIZE SPHERES;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 0042383314     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.002785     Document Type: Article

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