Brief Introduction:
Es~|:$(N]| The series “Light Scattering in Solids” was launched in 1975 with the eighth volume of the Springer Collection “Topics in Applied Physics.” That volume dealt mainly with Raman and Brillouin spectroscopy of low-frequency elementary excitations (phonons, electronic excitations including plasmons and, magnetic excitations such as magnons) The advent of the laser around 1960, its commercial availability a few years later, and concomitant developments in light-dispersion and -detection systems have positioned light-scattering spectroscopy among the most powerful techniques for the investigation and characterization of condensed matter, particularly solids. To date, a wide rangeof material systems, including bulk semiconductor (crystalline and amorphous), semiconductor nanostructures (e.g., superlattices), fullerites, nanotubes, high-Tc superconductors and, very recently, more conventional superconductors (boron-doped diamond, magnesium diboride), have been successfully investigated using light-scattering techniques.
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