Optics and Spectroscopy at Surfaces and Interfaces

Abstract

Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Surfaces and Interfaces. 2.1 Solid Surfaces. 2.2 Adsorption on Solid Surfaces. 2.3 Liquid-Solid Interface. 2.4 Gas-Solid Interface. 3. Linear Optical Properties of Surfaces and Interfaces. 3.1 Reflection and Refraction of Light. 3.2 Nonlocal Optical Response. 3.3 Surface Polaritons. 3.4 Scattering of Light at Rough Surfaces. 4. Infrared Spectroscopy at Surfaces and Interfaces. 4.1 Infrared Spectroscopic Ellipsometry (IRSE). 4.2 Infrared Reflection-Absorption Spectroscopy (IRAS) of Adsorbed Molecules. 4.3 Infrared Surface Polariton Spectroscopy. 4.4 Time-resolved Infrared Spectroscopy. 5. Linear Optical Techniques at Surfaces and Interfaces. 5.1 Spectroscopic Ellipsometry (SE). 5.2 Reflection Difference Techniques. 5.3 Transmission Spectroscopy. 5.4 Photoluminescence Spectroscopy. 5.5 Raman Spectroscopy. 5.6 Surface Plasmon Polariton Spectroscopy. 5.7 Electrochemical Optical Spectroscopy. 6. Nonlinear Optical Techniques at Surfaces and Interfaces. 6.1 Nonlinear Optical Response. 6.2 Second Harmonic Generation. 6.3 Sum Frequency Generation. 6.4 Four-wave Mixing. 6.5 Two-photon Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Adsorbed Atoms and Molecules. 7. Optical Spectroscopy at a Gas-Solid Interface. 7.1 Optical Response of a Gas Near a Solid. 7.2 Selective Reflection Spectroscopy. 7.3 Evanescent Wave Fluorescence Spectroscopy. 8. Optical Microscopy. 8.1 Optical Resolution and Simple Light Microscopes. 8.2 Dark-field, Fluorescence and Confocal Microscopy. 8.3 Total Internal Reflection Microscopy (TIRM). 8.4 Brewster Angle Microscopy (BAM). 8.5 Phase Measurement Interference Microscopy (PMIM). 8.6 Second Harmonic Microscopy. 9. Nano-optics and Local Spectroscopy. 9.1 Scanning Near-field Optical Microscopy and Photon Scanning Tunneling Microscopy. 9.2 Scanning Plasmon Near-field Microscopy (SPNM). 9.3 Near-field Optical Spectroscopy. 9.4 Near-field Nonlinear Optics. 10. Solutions to Problems. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.