K. Domen et C. Hirose, THE APPLICATIONS OF INFRARED-LASER PULSES TO SURFACE VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY, Applied catalysis. A, General, 160(1), 1997, pp. 153-168
Several applications of infrared laser pulses to the study of the kine
tics and dynamics of surface chemical reactions are briefly summarized
. Specific emphasis is placed on results obtained by the authors' grou
p using methods made possible by recent progress in the generation of
intense and frequency-tunable infrared laser pulses. This progress has
enabled us to carry out vibrational spectroscopic measurements of the
species adsorbed on insulator materials as well as on metal surfaces,
providing us with a unique and powerful tool for the study of surface
reactions.