High-pressure surface-sensitive techniques spectroscopy

In situ studies of catalytic reactions have also been a prime focus of our group. The high-pressure spectroscopic technique used in our research is polarization modulation IR reflection absorption spectroscopy (PM-IRAS). Like SFG, PM-IRAS is a highly surface-sensitive technique that yields vibrational information about adsorbed surface species. Unlike SFG, however, PM-IRAS... 

Reflection anisotropy spectroscopy (RAS) probes the electronic structure of surfaces and interfaces using visible and near-ultraviolet photons. From its origins in the 1980s as an in situ real-time monitor of semiconductor growth processes, RAS has evolved into a technique that has been applied to surfaces in UHV, surfaces under high pressure of ambient gas and solid/liquid interfaces in the field of electrochemistry, together with more spedaUst applications such as liquid crystal devices. (Note that the technique was also known as reflection difference spectroscopy (RDS) in the early years.) Most optical probes are not surface sensitive... 

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