Light scattering discrete dipole approximation

In this chapter the problem of elastic light scattering, i.e. interaction of electromagnetic waves with finite objects, is discussed. A detailed overview of one of the widely used methods for plasmonics, the discrete dipole approximation (DDA), is presented. This includes the theory of the DDA, practical recommendations for using available computer codes, and discussion of the DDA accuracy. 

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Part 1, Theory and Computational Methods, opens with a chapter by M. A. Yurkin (Russia) who describes in detail the Discrete Dipole Approximation (DDA) approach, which is an efficient method to study the absorption and scattering of metal nanoparticles of arbitrary shapes. This chapter will serve as an important reference for theoreticians to model metal nanoparticles. Chapter 3 reports DDA results for nanoparticles of different sizes and shapes. This systematic analysis, inspired by recent literature, should represent an important reference for both experimentalists and theoreticians to verify and compare the absorption and scattering spectra of different nanoparticles. While these first two chapters are completely dedicated to metal nanoparticles. Chapter 4 introduces the discussion about the molecular counterpart. In this chapter E. Fabiano (Italy) sheds light on the optical and photophysical... 

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Scattering from a discrete, small particle with a characteristic dimension much smaller than the wavelength of light, a X, can be approximated as scattering from a dipole. In 2... 

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