Mie scattering

Presentation

Extinction and scattering spectra can be calculated from this page using the Mie theory. The sphere dimension and composition and the refractive index of the embedding medium can be chosen. Qextinction and Qscattering are calculated and are respectively the extinction and scattering cross-sections divided by πR2 where R is the radius of the sphere.

You can zoom the plot by selecting a rectangle and zoom out using the lower left icon. The plot can also be resized using the lower right icon. The calculated values are available when clicking the DAT icon.

Parameters

sphere

λmin : nm, λmax : nm
Interpolation of the optical constants: none , linear or monotone cubic , step : nm

diameter : 0 < d= ≤ 1000 nm

embedding medium

1 ≤ n= ≤ 3

Results

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References

October 20 2011