Theory of Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy

• Main Author: Morita, Akihiro (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Chemistry, 97
• Subjects: Spectroscopy.; Chemistry, Physical and theoretical.; Microscopy.; Spectroscopy/Spectrometry.; Theoretical and Computational Chemistry.; Spectroscopy and Microscopy.

This book describes fundamental theory and recent advances of sum frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy. SFG spectroscopy is widely used as a powerful tool of surface characterization, although theoretical interpretation of the obtained spectra has been a major bottleneck for most users. Recent ad...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Electrodynamics at Interface
• 3. Microscopic Expressions of Nonlinear Polarization
• 4. Two Computational Schemes of X(2)
• 5. Molecular Theory of Local Field
• 6. Charge Response Kernel for Electronic Polarization
• 7. Quadrupole Contributions from Interface and Bulk
• 8. Other Topics
• 9.Applications: Aqueous Interfaces
• 10. Applications: Organic Interfaces. - Summary.