Title :
Sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy of water//spl Alpha/-quartz interfaces
Author :
Ostroverkhov, Victor ; Waychunas, Glenn A. ; Shen, Yuen-Ron
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., California Univ., Berkeley, CA
Abstract :
Sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy was used to assess water molecules ordering and orientation at the water/alpha-quartz interface. A special scheme allowed suppression of quartz bulk signal and measurement of the amplitude and phase of the nonlinear susceptibility
Keywords :
interface structure; molecular orientation; nonlinear optical susceptibility; optical frequency conversion; quartz; vibrational states; water; molecular orientation; nonlinear susceptibility; quartz bulk signal suppression; sum-frequency spectroscopy; vibrational spectroscopy; water molecules ordering; water/alpha-quartz interfaces;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics Conference, 2004. (IQEC). International
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-778-4
