This comprehensive reference/text covers updated principles of Raman theory, analysis, instrumentation, and measurement—specifying up-to-the-minute benefits of Raman spectroscopy in a variety of industrial and academic fields, and how to cultivate growth in new disciplines.

It includes over 500 detailed drawings and photographs that clarify and reinforce critical text material! Contains case studies that illustrate current techniques in data extraction and analysis!

Highlighting methods of Raman analysis in applications that are fueling commercial development, the Handbook of Raman Spectroscopy:

• introduces important instrumental measurement parameters
• reviews automated calibration in the industrial environment
• examines the use of Raman spectroscopy in polymer films and fibers
• presents innovations in hard-disk analysis, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals , and catalysis
• demonstrates potential of Raman spectroscopy for studies in gemmology, archaeology , and environmental and forensic sciences
• discusses spectral identification and management of standard spectral databases for pigments
• reveals insights into biodynamics and process control
• and much more!

The Handbook of Raman Spectroscopy is an essential guide for general and Raman spectroscopists; organic, inorganic, analytical, polymer, material, and environmental chemists and biochemists; process and chemical engineers; physicists; instrument design specialists; biomedical and biotechnological researchers; forensic scientists; pharmacologists; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

Contents

1. Theory of Raman Scattering
2. Evolution and Revolution of Raman Instrumentation—Application of Available Technologies to Spectroscopy and Microscopy
3. Raman Spectrometry and Its Adaptation to the Industrial Environment
4. Raman Microscopy: Confocal and Scanning Near-Field
5. Raman Imaging
6. The Quest for Accuracy in Raman Spectra
7. Chemometrics for Raman Spectroscopy
8. Raman Spectra of Gases
9. Raman Spectroscopy Applied to Crystals: Phenomena and Principles, Concepts and Conventions
10. Raman Scattering of Glass
11. Raman Spectroscopic Applications to Gemmology
12. Raman Spectroscopy on II—VI-Semiconductor Nanostructures
13. Medical Applications of Raman Spectroscopy In Vivo Raman Spectroscopy
14. Some Pharmaceutical Applications of Raman Spectroscopy
15. Low-Frequency Raman Spectroscopy and Biomolecular Dynamics: A Comparison Between Different Low-Frequency Experimental Techniques. Collectivity of Vibrational Modes
16. Raman Spectroscopic Studies of Ion–Ion Interactions in Aqueous and Nonaqueous Electrolyte Solutions
17. Environmental Applications of Raman Spectroscopy to Aqueous Systems
18. Raman and Surface Enhanced Resonance Raman Scattering: Applications in Forensic Science
19. Application of Raman Spectroscopy to Organic Fibers and Films
20. Raman Spectroscopy of Catalysts
21. Applications of IR and Raman Spectroscopy to the Study of Medieval Pigments
22. Raman Spectra of Quasi-Elemental Carbon
23. Process Raman Spectroscopy
24. The Use of Raman Spectroscopy to Monitor the Quality of Carbon Overcoats in the Disk Drive Industry
25. Raman Spectroscopy in the Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory
26. Raman Spectroscopy in the Characterization of Archaeological Materials

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