1 - Fundamentals

Introduction

One of the founding fathers of spectroscopy is Issac Newton, who observed the color series using ...

Interaction of light and matter

Matter can reflect or absorb electromagnetic radiation or the radiation can pass through the matt...

Optical Spectroscopy

Optical spectroscopy' refers to vibrational spectroscopy and electron excitation spectroscopy. Th...

The spectrum

All methods of optical spectroscopy have in common that absorption and emission are based on the ...

Theory of electron and vibrational excitation

UV and VIS spectroscopy is based on the excitation of electrons in the outer electron shell (orbi...