Raman Imaging Techniques and Applications [Paperback]

Raman imaging has long been used to probe the chemical nature of a sample, providing information on molecular orientation, symmetry and structure with sub-micron spatial resolution. Recent technical developments have pushed the limits of micro-Raman microscopy, enabling the acquisition of Raman spectra with unprecedented speed, and opening a pathway to fast chemical imaging for many applications from material science and semiconductors to pharmaceutical drug development and cell biology, and even art and forensic science. The promise of tip-enhanced raman spectroscopy (TERS) and near-field techniques is pushing the envelope even further by breaking the limit of diffraction and enabling nano-Raman microscopy.

Comprehensive coverage of state-of-the-art technology in Raman spectroscopy sets this book apart, including as it does vital information on how to accelerate Raman analysis in addition to new applications just now coming on stream, such as tip enhancement.

Instrumentation:.- Theory and instrumentation.- Imaging modes.- Micro-Raman Applications:.- Raman imaging in Semiconductor Physics and its application in Microelectronics.- Raman optimization of the properties of nano-phased materials.- Raman Imaging of meso- and nano-strutured materials.- Application of Raman-based images in the Earth sciences.- Uses of Raman Mapping and Imaging in Pharmaceutical Forensics.- Raman Microscopy: A Versatile Approach to Bio-imaging.- Mapping chemical and structural composition of biological and pharmaceutical samples by Raman and Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopy.- Morphology and Chemical Structure: Agricultural Applications.- Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy:.- From stress and dopant distribution mappings in solar cells to applications of the surface enhanced Raman effect.- Tip-enhanced Raman and photoluminescence of nanotubes.- CARS spectroscopy, implementation to far-field and near-filed microscopy and applications.