Scattering from fractals

Conference · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1989

OSTI ID:6009545

Hurd, A. J.

The realization that structures in Nature often can be described by Mandelbrot's ''fractals'' has led to a revolution in many areas of physics. The interaction of waves with fractal systems has, understandably, become intensely studied since scattering is the method of choice to probe delicate fractal structures such as chainlike particle aggregates. Not all of these waves are electromagnetic: neutron scattering, for example, is an important complementary tool to structural studies by x-ray and light scattering. Since the phenomenology of small-angle neutron scattering (SANS), as it is applied to fractal systems, is identical to that of small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS), it falls within the scope of this Working Paper. 9 refs.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 6009545
• Report Number(s): SAND-89-1346C; CONF-890791-1; ON: DE89013451
• Resource Relation: Conference: NSF workshop on future directions in electromagnetics research, Boston, MA, USA, 25 Jul 1989
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
FRACTALS
SCATTERING
FOURIER TRANSFORMATION
LIGHT SCATTERING
MASS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
NUCLEAR WINTER
SCALING
SURFACES
TOPOLOGY
INTEGRAL TRANSFORMATIONS
MATHEMATICS
TRANSFORMATIONS
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