Wave Optics in Infrared Spectroscopy

Thomas Mayerhöfer studied chemistry at the University of Regensburg, Germany where he received his diploma in 1996. He obtained his PhD from the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany in 1999. In 2006 he finished his habilitation in physical chemistry on the "Optics and IR-Spectroscopy of Polydomain Materials". Since the end of 2007, he has worked at the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology in Jena, Germany. One of his main areas of interest is on reuniting and advancing the fragmented field of IR spectroscopy based on wave optics and dispersion theory. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, predominantly as first author.

Foreword
Isao Noda
Part 1
1. What is wrong with absorbance
2. A simplified calculus
3. The Electromagnetic Field
4. Reflection and transmission of plane waves
5. Dispersion relations
6. Deviations from the (Bouguer-)Beer-Lambert approximation
7. Additional insights gained by wave optics and dispersion theory
8. 2D Correlation Analysis
9. Chemometrics
10. Mixing rules
Part 2
11. What is wrong with linear dichroism theory
12. Reflection and transmission of plane waves from and through anisotropic media – generalized 4×4 matrix formalism
13. Dispersion relations - anisotropic oscillator models
14. Dispersion analysis of anisotropic crystals - examples
15. Polycrystalline materials
16. Vibrational circular dichroism
Bibliography