Preface |
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Editor |
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Contributors |
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SECTION I Instrumentation and Methods |
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1 Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy with Photoconductive Antennas |
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1.1 Introduction to Terahertz Spectral Region |
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1.2 Brief Theoretical Background for Photoconductive Terahertz Generation |
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1.3 Terahertz-Generation Process |
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1.4 Detecting Terahertz Radiation Using Photoconductive Antennas |
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1.5 Experimental Considerations of Terahertz Spectroscopy |
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1.6 Terahertz Beam Propagation and Optical Systems |
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1.7 Adaptations and Extensions of Terahertz Spectroscopy Systems |
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2 Nonlinear Optical Techniques for Terahertz Pulse Generation and Detection — Optical Rectification and Electrooptic Sampling |
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Ingrid Wilke and Suranjana Sengupta, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
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2.1.1 Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy: An Overview |
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2.2 Optical Rectification and Linear Electrooptic Effect |
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2.3 Experimental Results of Terahertz-Frequency Radiation Generation by Optical Rectification of Femtosecond Laser Pulses |
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2.3.1.2 Inorganic Electrooptic Crystals |
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2.3.1.3 Organic Electrooptic Crystals |
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2.3.2 Recent Developments |
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2.4 Experimental Results of Terahertz Electrooptic Detection |
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2.4.1.1 Semiconductors and Inorganic Crystals |
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2.5 Application of Electrooptic Sampling of Terahertz Electric Field Transients |
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3 Time-Resolved Terahertz Spectroscopy and Terahertz Emission Spectroscopy |
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Jason B. Baxter and Charles A. Schmuttenmaer, Yale University |
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3.2 Time-Resolved Terahertz Spectroscopy |
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3.2.2 History and Examples |
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3.2.3 Experimental Setup and Data Collection |
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3.2.3.1 Basic Requirements |
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3.2.3.2 Detailed Description of Spectrometer |
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3.2.3.4 Importance of Spot Size |
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3.2.4.1 Calculating Conductivity |
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3.2.4.2 Use of Complex Transmission Coefficients |
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3.2.4.3 Special Treatment at Short Pump-Delay Times |
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3.2.4.4 Treatment of Porous Media |
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3.3 Terahertz Emission Spectroscopy |
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3.3.1.1 Far Field versus Near Field |
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3.3.1.2 Terahertz Focusing Optics |
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3.3.2.1 Sample Orientation |
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3.3.2.2 Excitation Polarization |
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3.3.3.1 Photoconductive Switches |
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3.3.3.2 Shift Currents and Optical Rectification |
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3.3.3.3 Intramolecular Charge Transfer in Orienting Field |
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3.3.3.4 Demagnetization Dynamics |
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SECTION II Applications in Physics and Materials Science |
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4 Time-Resolved Terahertz Studies of Carrier Dynamics in Semiconductors, Superconductors, and Strongly Correlated Electron Materials |
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Robert A. Kaindl, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
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Richard D. Averitt*, Boston University |
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4.2 Bulk and Nanostructured Semiconductors |
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4.2.2 Free Carrier Dynamics in Bulk Semiconductors |
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4.2.3 Intraexcitonic Spectroscopy |
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4.2.4 Intersubband Transitions |
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4.3.2 Far-IR Spectroscopy of Superconductors |
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4.3.3 Quasiparticle Dynamics in Conventional Superconductors |
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4.3.4 Quasiparticle Dynamics in High-Tc Superconductors |
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4.4 Half-Metallic Metals: Manganites and Pyrochlores |
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4.4.2 Optical Conductivity and Spectral Weight Transfer |
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4.4.3 Dynamic Spectral Weight Transfer in Manganites |
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4.4.4 Carrier Stabilization in TI2Mn2O7 through Spatial Inhomogeneity |
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5 Time-Resolved Terahertz Studies of Conductivity Processes in Novel Electronic Materials |
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Jie Shan, Case Western Reserve University |
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Susan L. Dexheimer, Washington State University |
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5.2 Charge Transport in Photo-Excited Insulators: Polarons in Single-Crystal Sapphire |
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5.3 Charge Transport in Disordered Electronic Materials: Dispersive Transport in Amorphous Semiconductors and Semiconducting Organic Polymers |
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5.3.1 Amorphous Semiconductors |
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5.3.2 Semiconducting Organic Polymers |
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5.4 Polaron Formation and Dynamics in Molecular Electronic Materials |
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5.4.1 Dynamics of Polaron Formation: Quasi-One-Dimensional Systems |
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5.4.2 Carrier Transport in Pentacene |
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5.5 Charge Transport in Nanoscale Materials: Nanocrystalline Semiconductors and Quantum Dots |
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5.5.1 Conductivity and Dielectric Screening in Nanoporous TiO2 |
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5.5.2 Excitons in Semiconductor Quantum Dots |
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5.6 Extending into Mid-Infrared Spectral Regime: Carrier Dynamics in Graphite |
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6 Optical Response of Semiconductor Nanostructures in Terahertz Fields Generated by Electrostatic Free-Electron Lasers |
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Sam G. Carter*, University of Colorado, Boulder |
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John Cerne*, State University of New York at Buffalo |
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Mark S. Sherwin, University of California, Santa Barbara |
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6.1.1 Overview of Scientific Results |
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6.1.2 Semiconductor Quantum Wells |
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6.1.2.1 Interband (NIR) Properties |
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6.1.2.2 Intraband (Terahertz) Properties |
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6.1.3 Experimental Techniques |
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6.1.3.1 In-Plane Terahertz Electric Fields |
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6.1.3.2 Growth-Direction Terahertz Electric Fields |
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6.1.4 Electrostatic Free-Electron Lasers |
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6.2 Internal Dynamics of Excitons and Effects of Terahertz Radiation on Excitonic Photoluminescence |
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6.2.2 Internal Dynamics of Magnetoexcitons Measured by Optically Detected Terahertz Resonance Spectroscopy |
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6.2.2.1 Experimental Results |
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6.2.3 Nonresonant PL Quenching Mechanism |
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6.2.3.3 Drude Analysis of Carrier Heating |
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6.3 Near-Infrared-Terahertz Mixing |
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6.3.2 NIR-Terahertz Mixing with In-Plane Terahertz Polarization: Sideband Generation and Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Magnetoexcitons |
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6.3.2.1 Experimental Setup |
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6.3.3 NIR-Terahertz Mixing with Out-of-Plane Terahertz Polarization: Excitonic and Electronic Intersubband Transitions |
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6.3.3.1 Undoped Square QWs |
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6.3.3.2 Undoped Asymmetric Coupled QWs |
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6.3.3.3 Doped Asymmetric Coupled QWs |
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6.4 Modifying Exciton States with Terahertz Radiation |
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6.4.4 Bacittti-ound: Static Electric Field Effects |
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6.4.2 Dynamic Franz-Keldysh Effect |
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6.4.3 AC Stark Effect: Autler–Townes Splitting |
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SECTISECTION III Applications in Chemistry and Biomedicine |
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7 Terahertz Spectroscopy of Biomolecules |
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Edwin J. Heilweil and David F. Plusquellic, National Institute of Standards and Technology |
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7.2 Experimental Procedures |
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7.3 Theoretical Spectral Modeling Methods |
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7.4 Weakly Interacting Organic Model Compounds |
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7.5 Small Biomolecules as Crystalline Solids |
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7.5.3 Nucleic Acid Bases and Other Sugars |
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7.5.4 Other Small Biomolecules |
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7.6 Terahertz Studies of Large Biomolecules |
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7.7 Terahertz Studies of Biomolecules in Liquid Water |
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7.8 Conclusions and Future Investigations |
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8 Pharmaceutical and Security Applications of Terahertz Spectroscopy |
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J. Axel Zeitler, University of Cambridge |
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Thomas Rades, University of Otago |
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Philip F. Taday, TeraView Ltd. |
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8.2 Pharmaceutical Materials Setting |
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8.3 Applications of Terahertz Spectroscopy in Pharmaceutics |
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8.4 Security Applications |
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Index |
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