Rayleigh/Mie

Spectroscopic examination of light scattered from a monochromatic probe beam reveals the expected Rayleigh, Mie, and/or Tyndall elastic scattering at unchanged frequency, and other weak frequencies arising from the Raman effect. Both types of scattering have appHcations to analysis. 

FIGURE 9.13 (a) Variation of the spectral scattering efficiency with respect to wavelength for a glass spherical particle of diameter 0.2 mm. When appropriate, the Rayleigh, Mie, and geometrical treatments are shown. Also shown is the Penndorf extension (b) same as (a), except for the variation of the spectral absorption efficiency. 

The basic theory of Rayleigh scattering was developed more than a half century ago by Rayleigh, Mie, Smoluchowski, Einstein, and Debye. It is well worth summarizing... 

J. I. Gersten, The effect of surface roughness on surface-enhanced Raman scattering, J. Chem, Phys. 72(10), 5779-5780 (1980) Rayleigh, Mie and Raman scattering by molecules adsorbed on rough surfaces, J. Chem. Phys. 72(10), 5780-5781 (1980). 

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