Effective medium theories for irregular fluffy structures: Aggregation of small particles

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 4065-4072

  Voshchinnikov, Nikolai V ^a   Videen, Gorden ^b   Henning, Thomas ^c  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS CARBON; INCLUSIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROSITY; SCATTERING; SILICATES;

ABSORPTION EFFICIENCIES; DISCRETE DIPOLE APPROXIMATION; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORY (EMT);

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES;

EID: 34548288060     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.004065     Document Type: Conference Paper

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