Light scattering simulation for the characterization of sintered silver nanoparticles

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 109, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1363-1373

  Hellmers, Jens ^a   Riefler, Norbert ^a   Wriedt, Thomas ^b   Eremin, Yuri A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b STIFTUNG INSTITUT FÜR WERKSTOFFTECHNIK   (Germany)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Concave; Discrete Sources Method; Nanoparticles; Nullfield Method with Discrete Sources; Silver; Sintering; T matrix

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; SILVER; SINTERING;

NULLFIELD METHOD WITH DISCRETE SOURCES; OPTICAL PARTICLE CHARACTERIZATION; T-MATRIX ALGORITHM;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATRIX; PARTICLE SIZE; SILVER; SINTER;

ARACHIS HYPOGAEA;

EID: 41549136863     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2007.10.009     Document Type: Article

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