Raman/fluorescence spectroscopy

The section on Spectroscopy has been expanded to include ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, fluorescence, Raman spectroscopy, and mass spectroscopy. Retained sections have been thoroughly revised in particular, the tables on electronic emission and atomic absorption spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance, and infrared spectroscopy. Detection limits are listed for the elements when using flame emission, flame atomic absorption, electrothermal atomic absorption, argon ICP, and flame atomic fluorescence. Nuclear magnetic resonance embraces tables for the nuclear properties of the elements, proton chemical shifts and coupling constants, and similar material for carbon-13, boron-11, nitrogen-15, fluorine-19, silicon-29, and phosphorus-31. 

Ion Chromatography Ion Selective Electrodes Argon Plasma X-Ray Fluorescence Raman Spectroscopy Neutron Activation... 

It is perhaps not universally known that Raman spectroscopy preceded infrared spectroscopy as a routine analytical tool in American industry. This author used it extensively in the analysis of aviation gasoline during WWII, even though he had to employ various tedious chemical procedures to reduce fluorescence. Raman spectroscopy became dormant in industry when inexpensive infrared spectrometers became available. The resuscitation of Raman spectroscopy in carbon industry is mainly due to the invention of the laser, of very sensitive detectors, of inexpensive digital computers to improve signal-to-noise ratios. 

Lee D and Albrecht A C 1985 A unified view of Raman, resonance Raman, and fluorescence spectroscopy (and their analogues in two-photon absorption) Advances in Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy vo 12, ed R J H Clark and R E Hester (New York Wiley) pp 179-213... 

Perhaps the best known and most used optical spectroscopy which relies on the use of lasers is Raman spectroscopy. Because Raman spectroscopy is based on the inelastic scattering of photons, the signals are usually weak, and are often masked by fluorescence and/or Rayleigh scattering processes. The interest in usmg Raman for the vibrational characterization of surfaces arises from the fact that the teclmique can be used in situ under non-vacuum enviromnents, and also because it follows selection rules that complement those of IR spectroscopy. 

Fluorescence Interference. The historical drawback to widespread use of Raman spectroscopy has been the strong fluorescence background exhibited by many materials, even those which are nominally nonfluorescent. This fluorescence often arises from an impurity in the sample, but may be intrinsic to the material being studied. Several methods have proved useflil in reducing this background. One of the simplest is sample purification. 

Laser Raman spectroscopy as it is applied to the study of surface adsorbed.species involves a number of experimental problems such as fluorescence, weak Raman lines, and interfering plasma lines. Techniques of overcoming these problems have been continually improved and good... 

In this review the definition of orientation and orientation functions or orientation averages will be considered in detail. This will be followed by a comprehensive account of the information which can be obtained by three spectroscopic techniques, infra-red and Raman spectroscopy and broad line nuclear magnetic resonance. The use of polarized fluorescence will not be discussed here, but is the subject of a contemporary review article by the author and J. H. Nobbs 1. The present review will be completed by consideration of the information which has been obtained on the development of molecular orientation in polyethylene terephthalate and poly(tetramethylene terephthalate) where there are also clearly defined changes in the conformation of the molecule. In this paper, particular attention will be given to the characterization of biaxially oriented films. Previous reviews of this subject have been given by the author and his colleagues, but have been concerned with discussion of results for uniaxially oriented systems only2,3). 

A nano-light-source generated on the metallic nano-tip induces a variety of optical phenomena in a nano-volume. Hence, nano-analysis, nano-identification and nanoimaging are achieved by combining the near-field technique with many kinds of spectroscopy. The use of a metallic nano-tip applied to nanoscale spectroscopy, for example, Raman spectroscopy [9], two-photon fluorescence spectroscopy [13] and infrared absorption spectroscopy [14], was reported in 1999. We have incorporated Raman spectroscopy with tip-enhanced near-field microscopy for the direct observation of molecules. In this section, we will give a brief introduction to Raman spectroscopy and demonstrate our experimental nano-Raman spectroscopy and imaging results. Furthermore, we will describe the improvement of spatial resolution... 

However, as Raman scattering is a two-photon process, the probability of the Raman scattering process is lower than that of fluorescence and IR absorption processes. The cross section of Raman scattering is 10 cm, which is much smaller than that of fluorescence ( 10 cm ) and IR absorption ( 10 °cm ). When we detect Raman scattering at the nanoscale, the number of photons obtained is less than with the usual micro-Raman spectroscopy due to reduction in the detection area or the number of molecules. To overcome this problem, we need to devise a method for amplification of Raman scattering. 

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