Acknowledgements
First and foremost, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Almighty God
Prabhu Shree Ram, Bajarang Balee and Maa Saraswati to give me strength for the
successful collections of the quality book chapters. The book entitled as Modern
Techniques of Spectroscopy: Basics, Instrumentation and Applications contains 23
chapters from various reputed institutions across India and abroad. The accomplishment of the book was possible with the unconditional support and help by many
individuals, scientists, and academicians. I would like to express my sincere thanks
to all of them. At first, I would like to show my heartfelt gratitude and thanks to all
contributors for providing a quality chapter in the recent developments of spectroscopic techniques. I extend my heartfelt gratitude to Prof. S. Prasanna, Dean; Prof.
A. U. Digraskar, Director; and Prof. Shiva Prasad, Director General of the IITRAM
for their motivations and good infrastructure facilities at IITRAM.
I owe my deepest gratitude towards Springer publisher team especially Loyola
D’Silva, Prasanna Kumar Narayanasamy, Aninda Bose, books production team,
Editorials team, etc for their guidance to complete the book. I do take the opportunity to thank my collaborators Prof. Arnulf Materny, Prof. Manik Pradhan and
Prof. Sunil Singh for their enormous support and scientific discussions.
I am grateful to the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST,
Government of India for financial support to conduct research work at IITRAM,
which make a basis to collaboration with the expert researchers and exchange our
ideas. My heartfelt and special thanks go to my Ph.D. students Deepak, Hardik,
Paridhi, and Amit for their valuable time to help me during editing the book. Last
but not least, I would like to thank my family, my wife Dr. Shweta Singh and my
daughter Drishti Singh, father Jamuna Prasad Singh and mother Pramila Singh for
their valuable support and sacrifices during the preparations of book.
Ahmedabad, India
Dr. Dheeraj Kumar Singh
xi
First and foremost, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Almighty God
Prabhu Shree Ram, Bajarang Balee and Maa Saraswati to give me strength for the
successful collections of the quality book chapters. The book entitled as Modern
Techniques of Spectroscopy: Basics, Instrumentation and Applications contains 23
chapters from various reputed institutions across India and abroad. The accomplishment of the book was possible with the unconditional support and help by many
individuals, scientists, and academicians. I would like to express my sincere thanks
to all of them. At first, I would like to show my heartfelt gratitude and thanks to all
contributors for providing a quality chapter in the recent developments of spectroscopic techniques. I extend my heartfelt gratitude to Prof. S. Prasanna, Dean; Prof.
A. U. Digraskar, Director; and Prof. Shiva Prasad, Director General of the IITRAM
for their motivations and good infrastructure facilities at IITRAM.
I owe my deepest gratitude towards Springer publisher team especially Loyola
D’Silva, Prasanna Kumar Narayanasamy, Aninda Bose, books production team,
Editorials team, etc for their guidance to complete the book. I do take the opportunity to thank my collaborators Prof. Arnulf Materny, Prof. Manik Pradhan and
Prof. Sunil Singh for their enormous support and scientific discussions.
I am grateful to the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST,
Government of India for financial support to conduct research work at IITRAM,
which make a basis to collaboration with the expert researchers and exchange our
ideas. My heartfelt and special thanks go to my Ph.D. students Deepak, Hardik,
Paridhi, and Amit for their valuable time to help me during editing the book. Last
but not least, I would like to thank my family, my wife Dr. Shweta Singh and my
daughter Drishti Singh, father Jamuna Prasad Singh and mother Pramila Singh for
their valuable support and sacrifices during the preparations of book.
Ahmedabad, India
Dr. Dheeraj Kumar Singh
xi