Effects of sample polydispersity and beam profile on ellipsometric light scattering

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2161-2170

  Sigel, Reinhard ^a,b   Erbe, Andreas ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EISENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELLIPSOMETRY; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; INCOHERENT SCATTERING; LIGHT SCATTERING; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

A-PARTICLES; BEAM PROFILES; COHERENCE LOSS; HIGH SENSITIVITY; PARTICLE INTERFACE; REFLECTION ELLIPSOMETRY; REFRACTIVE INDEX PROFILES; ROUGH SURFACES;

COHERENT SCATTERING;

EID: 61849150360     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.002161     Document Type: Article

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