Quantitative Infrared Spectroscopy for Understanding of a Condensed Matter

Prof. Takeshi Hasegawa (Kyoto University) 2015 Academic Prize, Chemical Society of Japan 2013 JAIMA Award for Development of Analytical Instrument 2009 The Clara Craver Award, Coblentz Society 2007 Yamazaki-Teiichi Prize 2005 Masao Horiba Awards 2001 Young Scientist Award, Japanese Society for Analytical Chemistry 2001 Young Investigator Award, Spectroscopical Society of Japan

Infrared spectroscopy as a vibrational spectroscopy.- Normal modes.- Light absorption by a molecule: 1. Understanding by quantum mechanical approach.- Selection rule of IR spectroscopy.- Light absorption by a molecule: 2. Understanding by electrodynamical approach.- Fundamentals of FT-IR.- Two representations of spectra: Time- and frequency-domain representations.- Fourier transform relationship.- Introduction of Michaelson interferometer.- Representative detectors.- Sampling techniques.- Surface analysis using FT-IR.- Boundary conditions in electrodynamics.- Thin-film approximation.- Surface selection rules for surface spectroscopies.- Chemometrics for FT-IR.- Limitation of Beer’s law.- Expansion of Beer’s law: CLS regression.- Inverse Beer’s law: ILS regression.- Mathematical expansion of CLS: PCA.- Merge of ILS and PCA: PCR.- Independent residual terms: PLS.