Optical Spectroscopy

Fundamentals and Advanced Applications

By: Emil Roduner, Tjaart Kruger, Patricia Forbes, Katharina Kress

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Developments in optical spectroscopy have taken new directions in recent decades, with the focus shifting from understanding small gas phase molecules towards applications in materials and biological systems. This is due to significant interest in these topics, which has been facilitated by significant technological developments.

Absorption, luminescence and excited state energy transfer properties have become of crucial importance on a large scale in materials related to light-harvesting in organic and inorganic third generation solar cells, for solar water splitting, and in light emitting diodes, TV screens and many other applications. In addition, Förster resonance energy transfer can be used as a ruler for the characterisation of the structure and dynamics of DNA, proteins and other biomolecules via labelling with fluorescing markers.

This advanced textbook covers a range of these applications as well as the basics of absorption, emission and energy transfer of molecular systems in the condensed phase, in addition to the corresponding behaviour of metal nanoparticles and semiconductor quantum dots. Technical experimental requirements, aspects to avoid interfering perturbations and methods of quantitative data analysis make this book accessible and ideal for students and researchers in physical chemistry, biophysics and nanomaterials.

Contents:

Introduction
Fundamentals
Aspects of Experimental Setup and Data Analysis
Principles of Optical Spectroscopy Demonstrated for a Set of Rigid Merocyanine Dyes
Absorption and Luminescence of Semiconductor Quantum Dots
Energy Transfer Processes of Excited States
Advanced Applications of Optical Spectroscopy

Readership: Students and researchers in chemistry, biology, biophysics, materials science,nanomaterials, analytics, energy conversion and light harvesting subjects.UV/Vis Spectroscopy;Absorption;Fluorescence;Biological Labeling;Solar Energy Applications;Photosynthesis;Organic Dyes;Quantum Dots0Key Features:

This book has the potential to become the basis of a standard university textbook for advanced graduate courses. Such books are often used over several decades since the fundamental principles remain valid, in contrast to research books which are often outdated after a few years