Electromagnetic Surface Excitations

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. Elementary Surface Excitations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction to Electromagnetic Surface Waves

      • R. F. Wallis

      Pages 2-7

   3. Surface Plasmon (SEW) Phenomena

      • F. Abeles

      Pages 8-29

   4. Surface Magnetic Modes

      • D. R. Tilley

      Pages 30-45

   5. Surface Vibrational Excitations in Noble Metals

      • V. Bortolani, G. Santoro

      Pages 46-56

   6. Electromagnetic Surface Excitations on Rough Surfaces

      • A. A. Maradudin

      Pages 57-131

   7. Contributions

      1. Poles of the Reflectance Function and Their Relation to Leaky Waves

         • F. Y. Kou, T. Tamir

         Pages 132-132

      2. Surface Polaritons in Semiconductor Superlattices

         • N. Raj, D. R. Tilley

         Pages 133-133

      3. Plasmon Modes in Semiconductor Superlattices

         • N. C. Constantinou, M. G. Cottam

         Pages 134-134

      4. Surface Phonons and Reconstruction in Diamond Structure Crystals

         • W. Goldammer, W. Zierau, W. Ludwig

         Pages 135-135

      5. Surface Plasmon — Surface Acoustic Wave Interactions on Thin Silver Films

         • W. M. Robertson, A. L. Moretti, R. Bray

         Pages 136-136

3. Electromagnetic Probes of Surface Excitations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137

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   2. Surface Brillouin and Raman Scattering

      • F. Nizzoli

      Pages 138-161

   3. Response Functions at Surfaces

      • R. Del Sole

      Pages 162-179

   4. Contributions

      1. Light Emission from Nominally Smooth and Statistically Rough Ag Tunnel Junctions

         • P. Dawson, D. G. Walmsley

         Pages 180-180

      2. Observation of Various Electromagnetic Modes in a Nematic Liquid Crystal Using the ATR Method

         • K. R. Welford, J. R. Sambles

         Pages 181-181

      3. Surface Reflectivity of GaAs(110)

         • F. Ciccacci, S. Selci, G. Chiarotti, P. Chiaradia, A. C. Felici, C. Goletti

         Pages 182-182

      4. In situ Spectroscopic Studies of the Metal-Electrolyte Interface

         • G. Piazza

         Pages 183-183

      5. Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering from Bare Silver Gratings of Various Groove Depths

         • J. L. Coutaz

         Pages 184-184

This volume is based on lectures and contributed papers presented at the Eighth Course of the International School of Materials Science and Tech­ nology that was held in Erice, Sicily, Italy at the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture during the period 1-13 July 1985. The subject of the course was "Electromagnetic Surface Excitations". Forty lectures were given by eleven distinguished scientists and engineers from France, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In addition to the lectur­ ers, approximately fifty participants representing eleven different countries throughout the world t. ook part in the course. Short contributed papers were presented by seventeen participants on the results of their own re­ search. The subject of the Course is of great importance for both pure science and for practical applications such as telecommunications. A technolog­ ical revolution is occurring in which the transmission of information by means of electrical currents travelling in copper wires is being replaced by transmission by means of light travelling in objects known as optical wave guides. The manipulation and processing of the light signals prior and subsequent to transmission through the wave guide has resulted in a technology often referred to as integrated optics. Important to the opera­ tion of integrated optics devices is the behavior of electromagnetic waves near surfaces and interfaces. One of the goals of the course was to further the dialogue between engineers and physicists in common areas of interest related to the propagation of electromagnetic waves along surfaces.

• Transmission
• integrated optics
• materials science
• optics
• surface

• Department of Physics, University of California, Irvine, USA

  Richard F. Wallis

• Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

  George I. Stegeman

• Teaneck, USA

  Theodor Tamir

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