This chapter presents the process of interaction of light, mainly in the xray range, with matter. The subject is introduced by some experimental evidences of x-ray absorption, emission or scattering by different kinds of material. The ways of describing the electromagnetic wave field are then briefly presented before developing its interaction with an electron in an atom. This process is then a...

The optical transmissivity of a mirrorless, nonlinear, absorbing dielectric thin film is investigated numerically. The dielectric function in the film region is dependent on the intensity of the electromagnetic field. Multivalued solutions of transmissivity as a function of incident power are calculated for the steady-state wave equation. The numerical solution is applied to two different model...

On the basis of the configuration characteristics of man-made forests, the spread model of wireless sensor signal in man-made forests has been simplified according to electromagnetic wave theory and Fermat principle. The man-made forests is decomposed into independent medium with four layers, the spread model is simplified into free space model, attenuation screen model and absorption screen mo...

INTRODUCTION Many wireless systems are more and more present in daily life. More than 5 billions of people over the world are nowadays using devices emitting electromagnetic fields. This paper presents an analysis of the specific absorption rate (SAR) induced by an incident EM plane wave in different fetuses embedded in a homogeneous women model. Moreover, the influence of this homogeneity on t...

We have designed a sphere-graphene-slab structure so that the electromagnetic wave can be well confined in the graphene due to the formation of a bound state in a continuum (BIC) of radiation modes. Based on such a bound state, we have realized strong optical absorption in the monolayer graphene. Such a strong optical absorption exhibits many advantages. It is ultrasensitive to the wavelength b...

Plasmonic light trapping in thin film solar cells is investigated using full-wave electromagnetic simulations. Light absorption in the semiconductor layer with three standard plasmonic solar cell geometries is compared to absorption in a flat layer. We identify near-field absorption enhancement due to the excitation of localized surface plasmons but find that it is not necessary for strong ligh...