TPDSci Literature survey 20070806

Literature survey: 06 August 2007

Interaction of light with matter
- Complex refractive index of water: analytical model for a wavelength range of 30 nm to 3 m (Shubitidze F and Österberg 2007)

Light scattering and absorption by particles: Fundamental problems and models
- Evidence for significant effect of nonsphericity of the particle shape in ice clouds on light scattering (Rapp M et al 2007)
- Light scattering and backscattering coefficients of maritime aerosol at various heights in a coastal zone off Eastern Canada, comparison of measurements and Mie-based calculations (Marshall J et al 2007)
- Photonic jet driven non-linear optics: two-photon fluorescence enhancement by dielectric microspheres (Lecler S et al 2007)
  See also photonic jet
- Use of Mie theory for the interpretation of angle-resolved OCT data to retrieve size of nonspherical (ellipsoidal) cell nuclei (Keener JD et al 2007)
  See also particle size measurement, by OCT, angle-resolved
- Frequency of oscillations in the spectra of cross-polarized light scattered by inhomogeneous spheres decreases as the correlation length (Lc) of the particle's refractive index distribution increases. High-frequency oscillations exist even for Lc much smaller than the wavelength of light. (Xu Li et al 2007)
- Light scattering by an absorbing sphere in the quantum theory framework (Gouesbet G 2007)
  See also Gouesbet G 2006

Light scattering and absorption by cells and cell organelles
- Uptake of (TiO₂) nanoparticles in mammalian cells evaluated via flow cytometric light scatter analysis (Suzuki H et al 2007)

Nanoparticles: Optical properties
- Plasmon resonances of metal nanoparticles examined by using optical spectroscopy and photoemission electron microscopy (Douillard L et al 2007)

Particle characterization
- Accurate determination of microparticle size by using Fourier transform of light scattering spectrum over wavenumber (Luo Y et al 2007)
  See also particle size determination with light scattering and absorption
- Effect of refractive index on determination of particle size through microscopy (Schiffer Z and Deutsch 2007)
  See also scattering of light, fundamentals, stationary phase theorem
- Fractal parameters of individual soot particles determined with electron tomography: Aggregate particle scatters more light than a sphere with the same mass (Adachi K et al 2007)
- Fractal aggregates: comparison of the characterization methods (Dukhin AS et al 2007)

Particle population (dispersion) dynamics
- Coagulation-through-collision model for a dispersion with large number of particles having significantly different sizes (Zhang N and Zheng 2007)
- Sedimentation of charged colloids (Torres A et al 2007)

Particle size distribution (PSD)
- Evidence for the Gaussian PSD in ice clouds (Rapp M et al 2007)
- Use of entropy to classify size distributions of marine particles (Mikkelsen OA et al 2007)
  See also particle size distribution, fundamentals, information content
- Particle size distributions of maritime aerosols in the coastal zone off Eastern Canada below and above clouds (Marshall J et al 2007)

Particle trapping and manipulation
- Trapping and sorting particles with optical lattices (Sun Y et al 2007)
- Trapping micron-sized particles with four weakly focused beam enables moving such particles at distances on the order of 100 µm (Huisken J et al 2007)

Turbid media: Radiative transfer (RT) and optical properties
- Backscattering Mueller matrix patterns of highly scattering media interpreted with with triple-scattering approximation (Deng Y et al 2007b, 2007a)
  See also scattering matrix for a dispersion
- Monte Carlo modeling of angularly-resolved radiative transfer in dispersions of biological cells (Chicea D and Turcu 2007)
  See also phase function of blood, effective, phase function of turbid medium, effective
- Light scattering and backscattering coefficients of maritime aerosol at various heights in a coastal zone off Eastern Canada (Marshall J et al 2007)
- Hybrid polarized RT model of the reflection matrix for the first two orders of scattering in vertically inhomogeneous, scattering-absorbing media is two orders of magnitude faster than a full vector model (Natraj V and Spurr 2007)
  See also a model of vector RT (Rozanov VV and Kokhanovsky 2000)
- Fractal model of tissue (power-law PSD of scaterers): Homogeneous particles yield only a qualitative fit to experimental data (Sharma SK et al 2007)

Modified: 07-May-2008