Prasankumar / Taylor Optical Techniques for Solid-State Materials Characterization

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4398-1437-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 748 Seiten

Over the last century, numerous optical techniques have been developed to characterize materials, giving insight into their optical, electronic, magnetic, and structural properties and elucidating such diverse phenomena as high-temperature superconductivity and protein folding. Optical Techniques for Solid-State Materials Characterization provides detailed descriptions of basic and advanced optical techniques commonly used to study materials, from the simple to the complex. The book explains how to use these techniques to acquire, analyze, and interpret data for gaining insight into material properties.

With chapters written by pioneering experts in various optical techniques, the text first provides background on light–matter interactions, semiconductors, and metals before discussing linear, time-integrated optical experiments for measuring basic material properties, such as Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, photoluminescence, and Raman scattering. The next section begins with a description of ultrashort pulse generation and carrier dynamics in semiconductors and metals. The book then discusses time-resolved optical techniques, such as pump–probe spectroscopy, terahertz spectroscopy, and magneto-optical spectroscopy. The subsequent section describes spatially resolved optical spectroscopy, including conventional optical microscopy and micro-optical and near-field scanning techniques. The book concludes with an overview of more advanced, emerging optical techniques, such as ultrafast x-ray and electron diffraction, ultrafast photoemission spectroscopy, and time-resolved optical microscopy.

As optical techniques are among the first applied when studying new systems with novel properties, the information presented in this comprehensive reference will only grow in importance. By supplying clear, detailed explanations of these techniques, the book enables researchers to readily implement them and acquire new insights into the materials they study.

Zielgruppe

Scientists and engineers in applied physics, materials science, optical sciences, and related areas.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Prasankumar, Rohit P.

Taylor, Antoinette J.

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Angewandte Optik
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Werkstoffkunde, Materialwissenschaft: Forschungsmethoden
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Zerstörungsfreie Werkstoffprüfung
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technische Optik, Lasertechnologie
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Analytische Chemie Magnetresonanz
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Elektromagnetismus Mikroskopie, Spektroskopie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

BACKGROUND
Light-Matter Interactions, Willie J. Padilla
Semiconductors and Their Nanostructures, Jeffrey Davis and Chennupati Jagadish
The Optical Properties of Metals: From Wideband to Narrowband Materials, Richard D. Averitt

LINEAR OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY
Methods for Obtaining the Optical Constants of a Material, Hidekazu Okamura
Methods for Obtaining the Optical Response after CW Excitation, Sajan Saini
Raman Scattering as a Tool for Studying Complex Materials, S. Lance Cooper, Peter Abbamonte, Nadya Mason, C. S. Snow, Minjung Kim, Harini Barath, John F. Karpus, Cesar E. Chialvo, James P. Reed, Young-Il Joe, Xiaoqian Chen, Diego Casa, and Y. Gan

TIME-RESOLVED OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY
Ultrashort Pulse Generation and Measurement, Andrew Kowalevicz
Carrier Dynamics in Bulk Semiconductors and Metals after Ultrashort Pulse Excitation, Jure Demsar and Thomas Dekorsy
Ultrafast Pump-Probe Spectroscopy, David J. Hilton
Transient Four-Wave Mixing, Steven T. Cundiff
Time-Domain and Ultrafast Terahertz Spectroscopy, Robert A. Kaindl
Time-Resolved Photoluminescence Spectroscopy, Marc Achermann
Time-Resolved Magneto-Optical Spectroscopy, Jigang Wang
Time-Resolved Raman Scattering, Daniele Fausti and Paul H.M. van Loosdrecht

SPATIALLY RESOLVED OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY
Microscopy, Alexander Neumann, Yuliya Kuznetsova, and Steven R.J. Brueck
Micro-Optical Techniques, Kartik Srinivasan, Matthew T. Rakher, and Marcelo Davanço
Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy, Ben Mangum, Eyal Shafran, Jessica Johnston, and Jordan Gerton

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
Recent Developments in Spatially and Temporally Resolved Optical Characterization of Solid-State Materials, Rohit P. Prasankumar and Antoinette J. Taylor

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Über Autor(innen)

Rohit P. Prasankumar is a technical staff member in the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the measurement of dynamics in complex functional materials with high temporal and spatial resolution over a broad spectral range.

Antoinette (Toni) J. Taylor is the leader of the Materials Physics and Applications Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), where she was awarded the Los Alamos Fellow’s Prize for Outstanding Leadership in Science and Engineering. She is a fellow of LANL, the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her research interests include the investigation of ultrafast dynamical nanoscale processes in materials and the development of novel optics-based measurement techniques for understanding new phenomena.