Böcker av Michael G. Cottam

There have been developments in techniques for producing multilayered structures of different materials, often with thicknesses as small as only a few atomic layers. This book describes research on the excitations of these materials, with emphasis on how the material properties are coupled to photons to produce mixed waves called polaritons.

Offers an introduction to the properties of wave-like excitations associated with surfaces and interfaces. Emphasizing acoustic, optic, and magnetic excitations and, apart from one section on liquid surfaces, this text focuses on solids. It also relates theory and experiment and describes important experimental techniques.