What is it about?
This article presents a quantitative relation between particle morphology and their scattering properties. It gives a formula to define the complexity of a particle and demenstrate its correlation with the so-called asymmetry parameter of the scattering phase function.
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Why is it important?
This work is important because it introduces a new mathematical concept called Cp parameter, which measures the smoothness of a phase fucntion. In addition, this work demenstrates its usefulness in applying this new concept for better understanding the morphology of particles and its relation to their scattering properties. This method brings new types of solution to problems called inverse scattering problems.
Perspectives
The concept of Cp parameter is a powerfull concept, not just due to its usefulness in dealing with inverse scattering problems but also because its potential applications to many other problems. This is because this concept is only dependent on a fundamental concept of a positive-denfined function, and therefore its applicability is almost unlimited.
Guanglang Xu
Karlsruher Institut fur Technologie
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This page is a summary of: Ice crystal morphological complexity and asymmetry parameter: Implications for light scattering measurements, January 2024, American Institute of Physics,
DOI: 10.1063/5.0183137.
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