Solid State Spectroscopy Practical

(I) In-situ (temperature) and ex-situ Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy on some given oxides followed by data analysis (mode assignment, frequency shift with respect to crystal chemistry).

(II) In-situ (temperature) and ex-situ Raman spectroscopy (Stokes and anti-Stokes) on some given compounds followed by data analysis (calculation of absolute temperature, mode assignment, frequency shift with respect to crystal chemistry, mode Grüneisen parameter) and modeling (phonon decay, mode anharmonicity, phonon confinement).

(III) In-situ (temperature) and ex-situ UV-Vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy followed by data analysis (calculation of bandgap and types of bandgaps) and modeling.

(IV) In-situ (temperature) and ex-situ inelastic and quasi-elastic neutron scattering data analysis.

(V) In-situ (temperature) and ex-situ MAS NMR data analysis.

After attending the practical course (one of the above) the participants shall have the following skills:
- know basic parts of the instrument
- know how to set up the respective experiment
- know how to collect data followed by data analysis
- know how to correlate the spectral information to the complementary bulk analysis such as X-ray/neutron elastic scattering experiments

Lab performance (experiment setup, data collection, data analysis) followed by written report

laboratory report

Hans Kuzmany: Solid-State Spectroscopy: An Introduction (Springer, Heidelberg, 2nd Edition, 2009)
Norman B. Colthup, Lawrence H. Daly, Stephen E. Wiberley: Introduction to Raman and Infrared Spectroscopy (Academic Press, San Diego, 1990)
Heinz-Helmut Perkampus: UV-VIS Spectroscopy and Its Applications (Springer, Heidelberg1992)
Melinda J. Duer: Introduction to Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy (Blackwell, Oxford, 2005)
Françoise Hippert, Erik Geissler, Jean Louis Hodeau, Eddy Lelièvre-Berna, Jean-René Regnard: Neutron and X-ray Spectroscopy (Springer, Berlin, 2006)

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