Antonio Cricenti Knihy

Focusing on advanced optical techniques, this book explores their role in revealing the electronic and structural properties of semiconductor and metal surfaces, as well as multilayer samples. It emphasizes nonlinear optics and dynamical processes through pump-probe methods, while also investigating new optical sources. Additionally, it highlights innovative applications of scanning probe microscopy for material science and biological samples, particularly in relation to silicon, semiconductor-metal interfaces, and III-V compound semiconductors.

This comprehensive two-volume graduate textbook presents the theoretical basis of optics and spectroscopy together with their advancement to the nanoscale, relevant experimental and numerical techniques, and selected emerging applications of nanospectroscopy. The work aims at students of the natural sciences and interested readers entering this fascinating interdisciplinary field. Volume 2 covers theoretical and experimental methods essential for nanospectroscopy. The work explains necessary instrumentation, gives insights into simulation tools and introduces a wide variety of nanomaterials typically investigated by nanospectroscopy. Vol. 1: Fundamentals & Methods. The work „Optical Nanospectroscopy. Applications“ presents numerous examples in modern photonics and optical sensing or state-of-the-art applications in material, chemical and biological sciences.