Chapter 4: Optical Properties of Solids

``The light in dust lies dead,
When the cloud is scattered
The rainbow's glory shed''
Shelley (1824)

• Introduction
• Physical optics
  • Classical electromagnetic theory
  • Acoustic and optical modes
  • Electrical properties of matter
• The complex refractive indices of material media
  • Scattering
  • Simulating the Particulate Spectra: Mie Theory
  • Experimental Determination of Optical Constants
• A problem with the laboratory spectra
  • Thin film vs. KBr-dispersion spectra
    • Laboratory techniques and results for thin-film samples
    • Comparison with dispersed-sample results
• Kramers-Kronig dispersion relations
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