Radiation torque on nonspherical particles in the transition matrix formalism

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 9508-9521

  Borghese, Ferdinande ^a   Denti, Paolo ^a   Saija, Rosalba ^a   Latì, Maria Antonia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAYS; DUST; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIATION EFFECTS; TORQUE;

DUST GRAINS; NONSPHERICAL PARTICLES; RADIATION TORQUE; TRANSITION MATRIX;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

EID: 33749391187     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.009508     Document Type: Article

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