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Computer Simulations of Rough Surface Scattering

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Light Scattering and Nanoscale Surface Roughness

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“Numerically exact” methods for rough surface scattering have increased in their relevance to surface scattering studies over the past quarter century. This increase in relevance follows the increase in computational power that has become readily available over the same period, along with developments in approaches for reducing the computational complexity of such methods. However, while computational power has increased by several orders of magnitude, and the range of surface scattering problems that can be studied numerically has followed directly, the overall impact of numerical studies has been decidedly less dramatic, while still of some import, as will be discussed throughout this chapter.

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Johnson, J.T. (2007). Computer Simulations of Rough Surface Scattering. In: Maradudin, A.A. (eds) Light Scattering and Nanoscale Surface Roughness. Nanostructure Science and Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35659-4_7

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