Contents
New Frontiers in Optical Absorption/Reflectance-Based
Spectroscopic Techniques and Applications
Fundamentals of ATR-FTIR Spectroscopy and Its Role for Probing
In-Situ Molecular-Level Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Harsharan Kaur, Bhawna Rana, Deepak Tomar, Sarabjeet Kaur,
and Kailash C. Jena
Two Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy: A Structure Sensitive
Technique with Ultrafast Time Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Deborin Ghosh, Samadhan Deshmukh, Srijan Chatterjee,
Sushil Sakpal, Tapas Haldar, Ambuj Dhakad, Somnath Kashid,
and Sayan Bagchi
Exploring Non-covalent Interactions by Jet-Cooled Electronic
and Vibrational Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Prakash Panwaria and Aloke Das
Classical- and Heterodyne-Detected Vibrational Sum Frequency
Generation (VSFG) Spectroscopy and Its Application to Soft
Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Subhadip Roy, Subhamoy Saha, and Jahur Alam Mondal
Broadband Terahertz Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Sneha Banerjee, Gurivireddy Yettapu, Sohini Sarkar, and Pankaj Mandal
Recent Advances in Raman Spectroscopy and Applications
Overview of Raman Spectroscopy: Fundamental to Applications . . . . . . . 145
Deepak K. Pandey, Hardik L. Kagdada, Paridhi Sanchora,
and Dheeraj K. Singh
Fundamentals and Applications of Surface Enhanced Raman
Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Bishnu Pada Majee and Ashish Kumar Mishra
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