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Main Author: Sernelius, B. (Bo)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Wiley-VCH, ©2001.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Surfaces (Physics)
Electromagnetic fields.
Electromagnetic Fields
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Bulk modes
  • 1.1. Bulk modes in terms of fields
  • 1.2. Bulk modes in terms of potentials
  • 2. Model dielectric functions
  • 2.1. Lorentz' classical model for the dielectric function of insulators
  • 2.2. Drude's classical model for the dielectric function of metals
  • 2.3. Modelling
  • 2.4. Dielectric function of a plasma
  • 2.5. Static dielectric function for a dilute gas of permanent dipoles
  • 2.6. Debye rational relaxation
  • 2.7. Dielectric properties of water
  • 2.8. Superluminal speeds
  • 3. Zero-point energy of modes
  • 4. Modes at flat interfaces
  • 4.1. Modes at a single interface
  • 4.2. Modes in slab geometry
  • 4.3. The Casimir effect
  • 4.4. Metal surfaces
  • 4.5. Quantum wells
  • 5. Forces
  • 5.1. Two molecules with permanent dipole moments
  • 5.2. One ion and one molecule with permanent dipole moment
  • 5.3. The molecules one with and one without permanent dipole moment
  • 5.4. Two molecules without permanent dipole moments
  • 5.5. Two ions
  • 5.6. Three or more polarizable atoms
  • 5.7. Interaction between macroscopic objects
  • 5.8. Interaction between two spheres: limiting results
  • 5.9. Interaction between two spheres: general results
  • 5.10. General expression for small separations
  • 5.11. Cylinders and half-spaces
  • 5.12. Summation of pair interactions
  • 5.13. Derivation of the van der Waals equation of state
  • 6. Energy and force
  • 6.1. Interaction energy to zero temperature
  • 6.2. Interaction energy at finite temperature
  • 6.3. Surface energy, method 1: no retardation
  • 6.4. Surface energy, method 1: retardation
  • 6.5. Surface energy, method 2: no retardation
  • 6.6. Surface energy, method 2: retardation
  • 6.7. Finite temperatures
  • 6.8. Recent results for metals
  • 6.9. Adhesion, cohesion, and wetting
  • 6.10. Finding the pair interactions
  • 7. Modes at non-planar interfaces
  • 7.1. Modes at the surface of a sphere
  • 7.2. Modes at the surface of a cylinder
  • 7.3. Modes at an edge
  • 7.4. Modes in a needle (a paraboloid of revolution)
  • 8. Different mode types
  • 8.1. Polar semiconductors or ionic insulators
  • 8.2. Metallic systems
  • 8.3. Characterization of different surface mode types
  • 8.4. Spatial dispersion
  • 8.5. Surface roughness
  • 8.6. The ATR method
  • 8.7. Earthquakes, rainbow and optical glory
  • 9. Colloids
  • 9.1. Milk
  • 9.2. Stability of colloids
  • 9.3. Formation of the double layer
  • 9.4. Gouy and Chapman theory
  • 9.5. Stern's theory of a flat double layer
  • 9.6. The [zeta]-potential
  • 9.7. Interaction energy and force between objects with double layers
  • App. 1. Conversion table from CGS to SI units
  • App. 2. Fourier-transform conventions.