How To Find Dielectric Function Of Bulk Material?

blackdiamondkao

5th January 2011 - 04:27 AM

Dear all,
I read some article about Rayleigh scattering. There is a constant, dielectric function of bulk material. For Ar, it is 1.68. I want to know the number of other materials. Is there any method to calculate it ? Or any information about bulk dielectric constant.

Reference:
Measurement of the average size and density of clusters in a gas jet
K. Y. Kim, V. Kumarappan, and H. M. Milchberg

Best,
Shih-Chi Kao

Lunarlanding

7th January 2011 - 10:06 PM

Experimental and theoretical methods given here:

http://books.google.com/books?id=1E8M117QO...and+Clusters%22

Lunar

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