Optical Properties of Nanomaterials 02: The complex refractive index

Lecture by Nicolas Vogel. This course gives an introduction to the optical properties of different nanomaterials. We derive fundamental relations describing the interactions between materials and electromagnetic radiation and discuss the resulting optical properties for dielectric, metallic and semiconducting particles.

This chapter introduces light matter interactions in general, provids a short overview of the required physics to describe them and then discusses the complex nature of the refractive index via the interaction of light waves witgh matter.

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