SPETTROSCOPIA

Academic Year 2017/2018 - 2° Year - Curriculum ASTROFISICA, Curriculum FISICA APPLICATA and Curriculum FISICA DELLA MATERIA
Teaching Staff: Riccardo REITANO
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: FIS/03 - Physics of matter
Taught classes: 42 hours
Term / Semester:

Detailed Course Content

General principles on spectroscpies with electromagnetic waves. EM wave propagation, complex refractive index and Fresnel coefficients. Sources, monocromators and detectors. Vibrations and group theory. Model dielectic functions. Absorption and emission in semiconductors and insulators. Light scattering. Spectroscopies with X-rays.


Textbook Information

H. Kuzmany, "Solid-State Spectoscopy", Springer.

J. Garcia Solè, L.E. Baus ́and D. Jaque, "An Introduction to the Optical Spectroscopy of Inorganic Solids", John Wiley & Sons.

D.C. Harris and M.D. Bertolucci, "Simmetry and Spectroscopy", Dover.

G.R. Fowles, Introduction to Modern Optics, Dover Publications

O.S Heavens, “Optical Properties of Thin Solid Films., Dover Publications

A. Borghesi, in Highlights on Spectroscopies of Semiconductors and Insulators, World Scientific

R.P. Feynman, R.B. Leighton, M. Sands, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Addison-Wesley

C.E. Housecroft and A.G. Sharpe, Inorganic Chemistry, Pearson Education Limited

M. Fox, Optical Properties of Solids (cap. 5.1 - 5.3), Oxford University Press

I. Pelant and J. Valenta, Luminescence Spectroscopy of Semiconductors, Oxford University Press