Gn. Zhizhin et al., FT INFRARED SEW SPECTROSCOPY OF THIN-FILMS ON METAL-SURFACES BY USINGA SINGLE COUPLING ELEMENT OR COMPOSITE SEW WAVE-GUIDES, Mikrochimica acta, 1997, pp. 669-670
The example of 4-n-octadecylphenol Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films on a c
opper surface is used to show the possibility of measuring IR absorpti
on spectra of thin dielectric films on a metal grating surface by mean
s of surface electromagnetic wave (SEW) spectroscopy. Some methodologi
cal aspects of the use of composite surface electromagnetic wave waveg
uides for thin-film FT-IR spectroscopy are discussed.