Introduction
This website is made as an assignment for the course Interaction of Light and Molecules. The lecturer of this course is Hans Kanger (University of Twente). He helped me with this assignment and corrected the content. For this I want to thank him.
I tried to create a basis for better understanding Infrared (IR) spectroscopy. Therefore, in the theory part I started with a short description of electromagnetic (EM) radiation, the energy of a molecule, and the way the EM waves could interact with the molecules. This interaction of light and molecules forms the basis of IR spectroscopy. Two types of IR spectrometers are discussed: the classical spectrometer and the Fourier Transformed Infrared (FTIR) spectrometer. Finally, some applications of IR spectroscopy are mentioned.
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Edwin van der Pol
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