Investigation of rough surfaces and transparent birefringent samples with Mueller-matrix scatterometry

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 30, 1997, Pages 7621-7628

  Delplancke, Francoise H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bragg scattering; Colloidal crystal; Crystal growth; Dynamic light scattering; Hard sphere; Light scattering; Microgravity; Quasi elastic light scattering

Indexed keywords

EID: 0542418352     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.007621     Document Type: Article

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