Optical Properties of Metal Clusters

Dieses Buch erweitert den Zugang zu Clustern - einem Zustand zwischen Molekül und Festkörper - mit Hilfe von optischen, molekularen und Festkörpermethoden. Die Synthese aus Grundlagenwissen und Ergebnissen der aktuellen Forschung spricht sowohl Experten, als auch Anfänger und Doktoranden im Bereich der Physik, der physikalischen und anorganischen Chemie und der Materialwissenschaften an.

Optical Properties of Metal Clusters deals with the electronic structure of metal clusters determined optically. Clusters - as state intermediate between molecules and the extended solid - are important in many areas, e. g. in air pollution, interstellar matter, clay minerals, photography, heterogeneous catalysis, quantum dots, and virus crystals. This book extends the approaches of optical molecular and solid-state methods to clusters, revealing how their optical properties evolve as a function of size. Cluster matter, i. e. extended systems of many clusters - the most frequently occuring form - is also treated. The combination of reviews of experimental techniques, lists of results and detailed descriptions of selected experiments will appeal to experts, newcomers and graduate students in this expanding field.

1. Introduction. - 2. Theoretical Considerations. - 3. Experimental Methods. - 4. Experimental Results and Discussion. - A. 1 Tables: Optical Spectroscopy Experiments with Metal Clusters. - A. 2 Survey of Optical Spectra of Elemental Metal Clusters and Chain-Aggregates. - A. 3 Mie Computer Program. - References.