Molecular Spectroscopy of Dynamically Compressed Materials

David S. Moore is a retired Laboratory Fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). His work mainly focuses on revolutionary approaches to study shocked materials and detect explosives using a wide variety of molecular spectroscopies. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1980 and was Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow at LANL 1980–1981. He has held a number of management positions at LANL, from Team Leader to acting Division Leader. He was Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Essen (1993–1994), and led the editorial office of the Fresenius Journal of Analytical Chemistry at Institut Fresenius, Germany (1996–1998). In 1998, he returned as R&D Scientist to LANL, where he established the ultrafast laser shock and diagnostics laboratory to study explosives initiation chemistry and the Los Alamos Collaboration for Explosives Detection. He has contributed to the Analytical Chemistry Division of the IUPAC and the APS Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter for many years. He has also been honored with a number of awards and fellowships.

Introduction.- Molecular Spectroscopy Basics.- Dynamic Compression Methods.- Electronic molecular spectroscopy.- Vibrational spectroscopy.- Coherent Raman methods.- X-ray methods.- A look to the future.