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Sloan J J 1992 Fourier-transform methods infrared Atomic and Molecular Beam Methods vol 2, ed G Scoles, D Laine and U Valbusa (New York Oxford University Press) pp 309-23... 

As an example of applying the Fourier transform method to a non-periodie funetion, eonsider the loealized pulse... 

As in all Fourier transform methods in spectroscopy, the FTIR spectrometer benefits greatly from the multiplex, or Fellgett, advantage of detecting a broad band of radiation (a wide wavenumber range) all the time. By comparison, a spectrometer that disperses the radiation with a prism or diffraction grating detects, at any instant, only that narrow band of radiation that the orientation of the prism or grating allows to fall on the detector, as in the type of infrared spectrometer described in Section 3.6. 

When dealing with polymeric materials these early techniques were limited by the fact that only protons could be readily observed in the available fields. The small chemical shifts and the large dipole interactions made work with these systems very difficult. However, the development of the routine Fourier transform method of observation, especially when observing C-13 NMR, significantly changed the situation. 

Fig. la-c. Theoretical 2H NMR line shapes for axially symmetric FGT (r = 0) in rigid solids, cf. Equ. (1). a Line shapes for the two NMR transitions b 2H spectrum (Pake diagram) in absorption mode as obtained by Fourier transform methods c 2H spectrum in derivative mode as obtained by wide line methods... 

When applied to the XRD patterns of Fig. 4.5, average diameters of 4.2 and 2.5 nm are found for the catalysts with 2.4 and 1.1 wt% Pd, respectively. X-ray line broadening provides a quick but not always reliable estimate of the particle size. Better procedures to determine particle sizes from X-ray diffraction are based on line-profile analysis with Fourier transform methods. 

The Fourier transformation method enables us to immediately write the momentum space equations as soon as the SCF theory used to describe the system under consideration allows us to build one or several effective Fock Hamiltonians for the orbitals to be determined. This includes a rather large variety of situations ... 

Radiofrequency spectroscopy (NMR) was introduced in 1946 [158,159]. The development of the NMR method over the last 30 years has been characterised by evolution in magnet design and cryotechnology, the introduction of computer-based operating systems and pulsed Fourier transform methods, which permit the performance of new types of experiment that control production, acquisition and processing of the experimental data. New pulse sequences, double-resonance techniques and gradient spectroscopy allow different experiments and have opened up the area of multidimensional NMR and NMRI. 

Fig. 36. Proton-decoupled natural-abundance carbon-13 NMR spectra of some corrinoids at 15.08 MHz, obtained by the Fourier transform method, (a) 0.67 M aqueous dicyano-cobinamide. (b) 0.024 M aqueous cyanocobalamin. (c) 0.038 M 5 -deoxyadenosylcobalamin (compliments of A. Allerhand)...

Infrared (IR) spectroscopy, especially when measured by means of the Fourier transform method (FTIR), is another powerful technique for the physical characterization of pharmaceutical solids [17]. In the IR method, the vibrational modes of a molecule are used to deduce structural information. When studied in the solid, these same vibrations normally are affected by the nature of the structural details of the analyte, thus yielding information useful to the formulation scientist. The FTIR spectra are often used to evaluate the type of polymorphism existing in a drug substance, and they can be very useful in studies of the water contained within a hydrate species. With modem instrumentation, it is straightforward to obtain FTIR spectra of micrometer-sized particles through the use of a microscope fitted with suitable optics. 

Better procedures for determining particle sizes from X-ray diffraction are based on line profile analysis with Fourier transform methods. The average size is obtained from the first derivative of the cosine coefficients and the distribution of particle sizes from the second derivative. When used in this way, XRD offers a fundamental advantage over electron microscopy, because it samples a much larger portion of the catalyst. The reader is referred to publications by Cohen and coworkers for more details and examples [4,10,11],... 

By Fourier transforming the EXAFS oscillations, a radial structure function is obtained (2U). The peaks in the Fourier transform correspond to the different coordination shells and the position of these peaks gives the absorber-scatterer distances, but shifted to lower values due to the effect of the phase shift. The height of the peaks is related to the coordination number and to thermal (Debye-Waller smearing), as well as static disorder, and for systems, which contain only one kind of atoms at a given distance, the Fourier transform method may give reliable information on the local environment. However, for more accurate determinations of the coordination number N and the bond distance R, a more sophisticated curve-fitting analysis is required. 

The very high accuracy which may be obtained by the pulsed Fourier transform method has been demonstrated using o-phenylene phosphorochloridite.1... 

A pitch is made for a renewed, rigorous and systematic implementation of the GW method of Hedin and Lundquist for extended, periodic systems. Building on previous accurate Hartree-Fock calculations with Slater orbital basis set expansions, in which extensive use was made of Fourier transform methods, it is advocated to use a mixed Slater-orbital/plane-wave basis. Earher studies showed the amehoration of approximate linear dependence problems, while such a basis set also holds various physical and anal3ftical advantages. The basic formahsm and its realization with Fourier transform expressions is explained. Modem needs of materials by precise design, assisted by the enormous advances in computational capabilities, should make such a program viable, attractive and necessary. 

The NMR spectra were taken on a JEOL JNM-MH-100 (CW) spectrometer using tetramethylsilane as an internal standard. 13C spin-lattice relaxation time of the polymer was measured by the inversion-recovery Fourier transform method on a JNM-FX100 FT NMR spectrometer operating at 25 MHz. 

Sheppard, N. The Use of Fourier Transform Methods for the Measurement of Infrared Emission Spectra, in Analytical Applications of FT-IR to Molecular Systems, J. Durig (Ed.) D. Reidel, 1980, p. 125... 

Fourier transform methods have revolutionized many fields in physics and chemistry, and applications of the technique are to be found in such diverse areas as radio astronomy [52], nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy [53], mass spectroscopy [54], and optical absorption/emission spectroscopy from the far-infrared to the ultraviolet [55-57]. These applications are reviewed in several excellent sources [1, 54,58], and this section simply aims to describe the fundamental principles of FTIR spectroscopy. A more theoretical development of Fourier transform techniques is given in several texts [59-61], and the interested reader is referred to these for details. 

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