Frontiers of Molecular Spectroscopy

For more than a century scientists have utilized how electromagnetic radiation, including the microwave, infrared, visible, and ultraviolet regions, interacts with atoms and molecules in order to learn the properties of matter. In this book, twenty chapters written by eminent scientists from around the world describe work at the cutting edge of molecular spectroscopy. Insight into how spectroscopy is used to study biological systems, archeological artifacts, chemical reactions, excited molecules, physical systems, and many others is presented. New methodology, instrumentation, and theory are described providing a broad comprehensive view of molecular spectroscopy at the present time.