Ultrafast dynamics at water interfaces studied by vibrational sum frequency generation spectroscopy

S Nihonyanagi, S Yamaguchi, T Tahara - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
We present an overview of studies on the ultrafast dynamics of water at aqueous interfaces
carried out by time-resolved vibrational sum frequency generation (VSFG) spectroscopies …

Recent progress on sum-frequency spectroscopy

CS Tian, YR Shen - Surface Science Reports, 2014 - Elsevier
Second harmonic generation (SHG) and sum frequency spectroscopy (SFS) have provided
unique opportunities to probe surfaces and interfaces. They have found broad applications …

Atomic-scale desorption through electronic and vibrational excitation mechanisms

TC Shen, C Wang, GC Abeln, JR Tucker, JW Lyding… - Science, 1995 - science.org
The scanning tunneling microscope has been used to desorb hydrogen from hydrogen-
terminated silicon (100) surfaces. As a result of control of the dose of incident electrons, a …

Single-molecule chemistry

W Ho - The Journal of chemical physics, 2002 - pubs.aip.org
The ability to probe individual atoms and molecules have made it possible to reveal
properties which otherwise would be hidden in the study of an ensemble of atoms and …

Polystyrene-dendrimer amphiphilic block copolymers with a generation-dependent aggregation

JCM Van Hest, DAP Delnoye, M Baars… - Science, 1995 - science.org
A class of amphiphilic macromolecules has been synthesized by combining well-defined
polystyrene (PS) with poly (propylene imine) dendrimers. Five different generations, from PS …

Formulas for the analysis of surface sum‐frequency generation spectrum by CH stretching modes of methyl and methylene groups

C Hirose, N Akamatsu, K Domen - The Journal of chemical physics, 1992 - pubs.aip.org
Derivation has been made of the expressions of surface vibrational sum‐frequency
generation (SVSFG). The results include (a) the vibrational selection rule,(b) the expressions …

Formulas for the analysis of the surface SFG spectrum and transformation coefficients of cartesian SFG tensor components

C Hirose, N Akamatsu, K Domen - Applied Spectroscopy, 1992 - opg.optica.org
Comprehensive expressions have been presented to facilitate the analysis of the surface
sum-frequency generation (SFG) spectrum. The electric field components of the SFG beam …

Quantum and classical relaxation rates from classical simulations

JS Bader, BJ Berne - The Journal of chemical physics, 1994 - pubs.aip.org
The time correlation function for a harmonic quantum mechanical system can be related to
the time correlation function for a corresponding classical system. Although straightforward …

Surfaces probed by nonlinear optics

YR Shen - Surface Science, 1994 - Elsevier
Surfaces probed by nonlinear optics Page 1 Surface Science 299/300 (1994) 551-562 North-Holland
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Coupling of vibrational excitation to the rotational motion of a single adsorbed molecule

BC Stipe, MA Rezaei, W Ho - Physical Review Letters, 1998 - APS
The reversible rotation of a single isolated acetylene molecule between two diagonal sites
on the Cu (100) surface at 8 K was induced and monitored with tunneling electrons from a …