Optical Techniques for Solid-State Materials : Characterization

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 .. Content: 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 Davanco 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 Index