SPECTROSCOPY
Academic Year 2019/2020 - 2° Year - Curriculum ASTROPHYSICS, Curriculum CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS and Curriculum PHYSICS APPLIED TO CULTURAL HERITAGE, ENVIRONMENT AND MEDICINECredit Value: 6
Scientific field: FIS/03 - Physics of matter
Taught classes: 42 hours
Term / Semester: 1°
Learning Objectives
Understanding of the basic principles undelying the most common spectroscopic techniques with e.m. waves for the characterization of molecules and solids.
Course Structure
Lessons with several practical examples e visits to laboratories.
Detailed Course Content
General principles on spectroscpies with electromagnetic waves. EM wave propagation, complex refractive index and Fresnel coefficients. Sources, monocromators and detectors. Vibrations and group theory. Model dielectic functions. Absorption and emission in semiconductors and insulators. Light scattering. Spectroscopies with X-rays.
Textbook Information
H. Kuzmany, "Solid-State Spectoscopy", Springer.
J. Garcia Solè, L.E. Baus ́and D. Jaque, "An Introduction to the Optical Spectroscopy of Inorganic Solids", John Wiley & Sons.
D.C. Harris and M.D. Bertolucci, "Simmetry and Spectroscopy", Dover.
G.R. Fowles, Introduction to Modern Optics, Dover Publications
O.S Heavens, “Optical Properties of Thin Solid Films., Dover Publications
A. Borghesi, in Highlights on Spectroscopies of Semiconductors and Insulators, World Scientific
R.P. Feynman, R.B. Leighton, M. Sands, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Addison-Wesley
C.E. Housecroft and A.G. Sharpe, Inorganic Chemistry, Pearson Education Limited
M. Fox, Optical Properties of Solids (cap. 5.1 - 5.3), Oxford University Press
I. Pelant and J. Valenta, Luminescence Spectroscopy of Semiconductors, Oxford University Press