As well as coverage of the base concepts in thin film theory, this volume has details of many of the latest results in the field, including materials mixtures and nanostructured coatings. It includes dedicated software packages for materials characterization.
Basics.- Experimental determination of thin film optical constants.- Remarks on available coating materials.- Material aspects of coating design (incl. computational manufacturing).- High index oxide materials: Porous versus dense coatings.- Strongly porous low index materials.- Dielectric mixtures as coating materials (including applications in graded index coatings).- Mixtures with metal inclusions.- Examples on coatings with a periodic surface structure.- Concluding remarks.