Condensed-Phase Molecular Spectroscopy and Photophysics

Condensed-Phase Molecular Spectroscopy and Photophysics
 
An introduction to one of the fundamental tools in chemical research--spectroscopy and photophysics in condensed-phase and extended systems
 
Condensed-Phase Molecular Spectroscopy and Photophysics comprehensively covers radiation-matter interactions for molecules in condensed phases along with metallic and semiconductor nanostructures, examining optical processes in extended systems such as metals, semiconductors, and conducting polymers and addressing the unique optical properties of nanoscale systems.
 
The text differs from others through its emphasis on the molecule-environment interactions that strongly influence spectra in condensed phases, including spectroscopy and photophysics of molecular aggregates, molecular solids, and metals and semiconductors, as well as more modern topics such as two-dimensional and single-molecule spectroscopy.
 
To aid in reader comprehension, the text includes case studies and illustrated examples. An online manual with solutions to the problems in the book is available to all readers on a companion website.
 
Condensed-Phase Molecular Spectroscopy and Photophysics begins with an introduction to quantum mechanics that sets a solid foundation for understanding the text's subsequent topics, including:
* Electromagnetic radiation and radiation-matter interactions, molecular vibrations and infrared spectroscopy, and electronic spectroscopy
* Photophysical processes and light scattering, nonlinear and pump-probe spectroscopies, and electron transfer processes
* Basic rotational spectroscopy and statistical mechanics, Raman scattering, 2D and single-molecule spectroscopies, and time-domain pictures of steady-state spectroscopies
* Time-independent quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, group theory, radiation-matter interactions, and system-bath interactions
* Atomic spectroscopy, photophysical processes, light scattering, nonlinear and pump-probe spectroscopies, two-dimensional spectroscopies, and metals and plasmons
 
Written for researchers and upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in physical and materials chemistry, Condensed-Phase Molecular Spectroscopy and Photophysics is a valuable learning resource that is uniquely designed to equip readers to solve a broad array of current problems and challenges in the vast field of chemistry.

List of contents

Preface to Second Edition
 
Preface to First Edition
 
About the Companion Website
 
I. BACKGROUND
 
1. Time-Independent Quantum Mechanics
 
1.1. states, operators, and representations
 
1.2. eigenvalue problems and the Schrödinger equation
 
1.3. expectation values, uncertainty relations
 
1.4. particle in a box
 
1.5. harmonic oscillator
 
1.6. the rigid rotator and angular momentum
 
1.7. the hydrogen atom
 
1.8. approximation methods
 
1.9. electron spin
 
1.10. Born-Oppenheimer approximation
 
1.11. molecular orbitals
 
1.12. energies and time scales, separation of motions
 
2. Classical Description of Electromagnetic Radiation
 
2.1. Maxwell's equations, plane waves, electric and magnetic fields, polarization
 
2.2. Fourier transform relationships between time and frequency
 
2.3. blackbody radiation
 
2.4. light sources for spectroscopy
 
3. Statistical mechanics
 
3.1. the partition function
 
3.2. the Boltzmann distribution
 
4. Group theory
 
4.1. qualitative aspects of molecular symmetry
 
4.2. introductory group theory
 
4.3. finding the symmetries of vibrational modes of a certain type
 
4.4. finding the symmetries of all vibrational modes
 
II. FUNDAMENTALS OF SPECTROSCOPY
 
5. Radiation-Matter Interactions
 
5.1. the time-dependent Schrödinger equation
 
5.2. time-dependent perturbation theory
 
5.3. interaction of matter with the classical radiation field
 
5.4. quantum mechanical description of radiation
 
5.5. interaction of matter with the quantized radiation field
 
6. Absorption and Emission of Light by Matter
 
6.1. Einstein coefficients for absorption and emission
 
6.2. other measures of absorption strength (absorption cross-section, Beer-Lambert Law)
 
6.3. radiative lifetimes
 
6.4. oscillator strengths
 
6.5. local fields
 
7. System-Bath Interactions
 
7.1. phenomenological treatment of relaxation and lineshapes
 
7.2. the density matrix
 
7.3. density matrix methods in spectroscopy
 
7.4. exact density matrix solution for a 2-level system
 
8. Atomic Spectroscopy
 
8.1. electron configurations
 
8.2. addition of angular momenta
 
8.3. term symbols
 
8.4. angular momentum coupling schemes
 
8.5. spin-orbit coupling
 
8.6. energies and selection rules
 
8.7. Zeeman effect
 
8.8. hyperfine splitting
 
9. Rotational Spectroscopy
 
9.1. rotational transitions of diatomic molecules
 
9.2. rotational spectroscopy of polyatomic molecules--symmetric, near-symmetric, and asymmetric tops
 
10. Molecular Vibrations and Infrared Spectroscopy
 
10.1. vibrational and rovibrational transitions
 
10.2. diatomic vibrations
 
10.3. anharmonicity
 
10.4. polyatomic molecular vibrations; normal modes
 
10.5. vibration-rotation interactions
 
10.6. symmetry considerations
 
10.7. isotopic shifts
 
10.8. solvent effects on vibrational spectra
 
11. Electronic Spectroscopy
 
11.1. electronic transitions
 
11.2. spin and orbital selection rules
 
11.3. vibronic structure
 
11.4. vibronic coupling
 
11.5. the Jahn-Teller effect
 
11.6. considerations in large molecules
 
11.7. solvent effects on electronic spectra
 
12. Photophysical Processes
 
12.1. Jablonski diagrams
 

About the author

Anne Myers Kelley, PhD is a founding faculty of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, Merced. Her primary research area is resonance Raman spectroscopy, linear and nonlinear, but she has also worked in several other areas of spectroscopy including single-molecule and line-narrowed fluorescence, four-wave mixing, and time-resolved methods.

Product details

• Authors: AM Kelley, Anne Myers Kelley, Anne Myers (University of California Kelley
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.09.2022
• EAN: 9781119829263
• ISBN: 978-1-119-82926-3
• No. of pages: 432
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Chemistry; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Natural science; Chemie, Physik, Werkstoffprüfung, Spektroskopie, chemistry, Physics, spectroscopy, Materialwissenschaften, Materials science, Materials Characterization, Optik u. Photonik, Optics & Photonics, Kondensierte Materie