:: Honors
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:: Curriculum Vitae
:: Publications
overview
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I earned my B.S. degree from Stanford
University in 1953 and my Ph.D.
from the University of Bristol (England) in 1957. After four years at
the University of Maryland, College Park, as a postdoctoral fellow and
assistant research professor, and five years at the Westinghouse
Research Laboratories, I joined the UCI Physics Department in 1965.
research summary
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A large part of the research activity in my
group is devoted to the theoretical study of surface phenomena.
A
primary area of interest is the scattering of electromagnetic waves
from randomly rough surfaces. Of particular interest are effects due to
the coherent interference of each multiply-scattered optical path and
its reciprocal partner. These include enhanced backscattering, enhanced
transmission, satellite peaks, new angular intensity correlation
functions, and changes in the spectrum of polychromatic light due to
rough surface scattering. Most of the existing calculations of these
effects by computer simulations have been carried out for
one-dimensional random surfaces. Efforts are currently underway to
extend such calculations to two-dimensional surfaces. Another aspect of
rough surface scattering that is being actively pursued is the design
of one- and two-dimensional randomly rough surfaces that scatter or
transmit light with a specified angular or spatial dependence of the
intensity of the scattered or transmitted light, or that produce
scattered or transmitted light with specified coherence properties.
As
a teacher, I believe that my role is not only to transmit information
to my students but also to teach them how to think, and to reason. The
latter is more difficult, both for the teacher and for the student,
than the former, but ultimately more rewarding, since the knowledge a
student receives will change with time, particularly in a rapidly
evolving field such a physics, but the ability to reason transcends
such changes.
representative publications
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E.R. Méndez, E.E.
García-Guerrero, T.A. Leskova, A.A. Maradudin, J.
Muñoz-Lopez, and I. Simonsen,
“The design of one-dimensional random surfaces with specified
scattering properties,”
Appl. Phys. Lett. 81, 798-800 (2002).
A.A. Maradudin, T.A. Leskova and W. Zierau, “Surface Plasmon Polariton
Propagation Near an Index Step Opt. Commun.” 249, 23-35 (2005).
A.A. Maradudin, E.R. Méndez, T.A. Leskova, M. Leyva-Lucero, and
J. Muñoz-Lopez, “The Design of Two-Dimensional Random Surfaces
with Specified Scattering Properties,” J. of Optics A7, S141-S151
(2005).
A.A. Maradudin, T. A. Leskova and W. Zierau, “Synthetic spectra from
rough surface scattering Waves in Random and Complex Media,” 16,
531-544 (2006).
A.A. Maradudin, B. Baumeier and T. A. Leskova, “Transmission of light
through a thin metal film with periodically and randomly corrugated
surfaces”, J. of Optics A8, S191-S207 (2006).
A.A. Maradudin, E. E. García-Guerrero, E. R. Méndez, H.
M. Escamilla, and T. A. Leskova, ”Design and Fabrication of random
phase diffusers for extending the depth of focus,” Opt. Express 15,
910-923 (2007).
A.A. Maraudidn, E. R. Méndez and T. A. Leskova, “Designer
Surfaces” (Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2008).
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