Polarized Spectroscopy of Ordered Systems

Spectroscopic Applications of Molecular Alignment.- Applications of IR and UV-Visible Linear Dichroism.- Order Parameters and Orientational Distributions in Liquid Crystals.- Molecular Alignment - Origin, Methods of Measurement, and Theoretical Description.- Liquid Crystal — Linear Dichroism Stereochemical Applications of Electronic State Assignments.- Linear Dichroism and Induced Circular Dichroism for Studying Structure and Interactions of DNA.- Extending Linear Dichroism Measurements into the Vacuum Ultraviolet for Improved Information Content.- Polarisation Properties in Infrared and Raman for the Study of Molecular Dynamics of Chain Molecules.- New Techniques for Aligning Molecules: Migrative Orientation.- Reactivity Control in Liquid Crystalline Ordered Systems: Orientational Information by Linear Dichroism.- Polarization Modulation Spectroscopy.- Why Does Sinusoidally Modulated Polarization Introduce a Systematic Error in Linear Dichroism Measurements? Analytical and Instrumental Solutions.- Differential Polarization Imaging.- Differential Polarization Imaging: Theory and Applications.- Theory of Absorption and Circular Dichroism of Large Inhomogeneous Molecular Aggregates.- The Effect of Anisotropic Properties of Randomly Oriented Particles on Polarized Light: an Operational Calculus for Spatially Heterogeneous Distributions.- Optical Activity of Oriented Molecules.- Fluorescence Depolarization in Liquid Crystals.- Angle-Resolved Techniques in Studies of Organic Molecules in Ordered Systems Using Polarized Light.- Some Aspects of Excited-State Probe Emission Spectroscopy for Structure and Dynamics of Model and Biological Membranes.