Scattering of evanescent waves by a particle on or near a plane surface

The paper is devoted to semi-analytical approaches for analyzing the evanescent wave scattering by penetrable scatterers on a plane surface. On the basis of the discrete sources method and the T-matrix method numerical schemes were developed and implemented in computer programs. Numerical results related to the influence of the plane surface on the scattering characteristics are discussed. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.