Sculptured Thin Films nanoengineered morphology and optics / Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Russell Messier.

• Chapter 1. Overview -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. From columnar to sculptured thin films -- 1.3. Time-harmonic electromagnetic fields -- 1.4. Optical applications of STFs -- 1.5. Other applications -- 1.6. Prognostications -- Chapter 2. History of thin-film morphology -- 2.1. Synoptic view -- 2.2. Early history (pre-1940) -- 2.3. Intermediate history (1940-1970) -- 2.4. Recent history (1970-2004) -- 2.5. Low-adatom-mobility morphology -- Chapter 3. PVD methods for STFs -- 3.1. Important factors for STF deposition -- 3.2. STF deposition methods -- 3.3. Desirable future developments -- Chapter 4. Engineering of thin-film morphology -- 4.1. Continuum of morphology -- 4.2. From concepts to quantification -- 4.3. Matchstick morphology -- 4.4. Anisotropy due to atomic-level self-shadowing -- 4.5. Dynamic self-shadowing -- Chapter 5. Speculations on STF morphology -- 5.1. Deposition on nonplanar substrates -- 5.2. Controlled low-energy bombardment -- 5.3. Self-shadowing, again -- 5.4. Distribution functions -- Chapter 6. Macroscopic electromagnetism -- 6.1. Macroscopic Maxwell postulates -- 6.2. Constitutive relations -- 6.3. Constitutive relations of STFs -- 6.4. From the nanostructure to the continuum -- 6.5. Dielectric STFs -- Chapter 7. Optics of CTFs -- 7.1. Electromagnetic fundamentals -- 7.2. Reflection and transmission -- 7.3. Normal incidence -- Chapter 8. Optics of sculptured nematic thin films -- 8.1 Electromagnetic fundamentals -- 8.2. Reflection and transmission -- Chapter 9. Optics of chiral STFs -- 9.1. Electromagnetic fundamentals -- 9.2. Transfer matrix -- 9.3. Reflection and transmission -- 9.4. Normal incidence -- 9.5. Chiral STF half-space -- 9.6. Morphology and optics -- Chapter 10. Optical applications of chiral STFs -- 10.1. Optical filters -- 10.2. Optical sensors -- 10.3. Optical emitters -- 10.4. Tuning and bandwidth control -- Appendix: Dyads and dyadics. 

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