Infra-red Physics

An advanced introduction to the techniques of infra-red spectroscopy and the physics of the phenomena to which they are applied. Offers research workers, post graduate and advanced under graduate students in physics, physical chemistry, and chemical physics a unified interdisciplinary approach which is designed to familiarize them with the optical properties of solids and related topics in the infrared fields Does not cover metals, nor does it cover defects and impurities in the discussion of electronic properties. The authors: University of Oxford, University of Reading. Contents: Basic principles. The infrared spectra of moleculess Infrared optical properties of solids: Lattice vibrations; electronic effects in semiconductors. Infra-red detectors. Spectrometers, interferometers, and filters. The far infra-red. Applications of infra-red techniques. Appendixes: Optical formulae in m.k.s. and gaussian c.g.s. units. Some details of the k.p. perturbation calculation and a note on matrix elements; Note on spectroscopic units. Index of notations Author index. Subject index. -- AATA