Han-Kwang Nienhuys: PhD. Thesis

Femtosecond mid-infrared spectroscopy of water PhD Thesis by Han-Kwang Nienhuys

Thesis advisors: prof. dr. R. A. van Santen and prof. dr. H. J. Bakker

Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, 2002;
FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (Amolf), Amsterdam, 2002.

Contents

• Entire thesis (128 pages, not including `Stellingen') (1785K PDF)
• Stellingen (in Dutch) (30K PDF)
• Propositions (English translation of `Stellingen') (30K PDF)
  
  
• Cover and title pages (60K PDF)
• Table of Contents (36K PDF)
• Publications covered in this thesis (34K PDF)
• Photographs of the experimental setup (215K PDF)
  
  
• 1. Introduction (177K PDF)
• 2. Experimental details (326K PDF)
• 3. Generation of mid-infrared pulses by chi⁽³⁾ difference frequency generation in CaF₂ and BaF₂ (124K PDF)
• 4. Vibrational relaxation in HDO:D₂O (187K PDF)
• 5. Isotope effects on vibrational relaxation and hydrogen-bond dynamics in water (184K PDF)
• 6. Dynamics of water molecules in an alkaline environment (307K PDF)
• 7. Orientational relaxation of HDO:D₂O as an activated process (240K PDF)
• 8. Spectral diffusion and mechanism for autodissociation (334K PDF)
• Appendix: The cm^-1 unit (38K PDF)
• Bibliography (81K PDF)
• Summary (39K PDF)
  
  
• Samenvatting (summary in Dutch, for outsiders) (60K PDF)
• Nawoord (in Dutch) (31K PDF)
• Curriculum Vitae (24K PDF)
• Index (30K PDF)
• Colophon (25K PDF)
• Backside of cover (30K PDF)

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