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PIKE Calc

PIKE Technologies calculator allows you to do unit conversion (wavelength to wavenumber), ATR calculation (depth, angle and reflections), thickness calculation (pathlength of transmission liquid cell, thickness of free standing film by specular reflection, thickness of free standing film by transmission), and has crystal properties information for AMTIR, BaF2, CaF2, Diamond, Ge, KBr, KRS-5, NaCl, Sapphire, Si, Zns, and ZnSe.

Books

Spectroscopy Educational Notes, Classes, Videos

IR and Raman Identification: Beyond Direct Spectral Searching
Instructor: Dr. James de Haseth
Description: This four part webinar goes beyond a simple search and explores how to derive more information including:

• Comparing complex information in spectra between unknown and library entries
• Narrowing and improving your spectral search results
• Utilizing the search system to assist in interpretation of the unknown

Portable Spectroscopy Within Forensics, Law Enforcement, Safety and Security
Description: This webinar will provide insights into the use of portable spectroscopy in Forensics, Law Enforcement, Safety and Security.  Three Coblentz members will address the following topics.

• Crime Scene Spectroscopy & Spectrometry
  Brooke Kammrath, University of New Haven, West Haven, USA
• The Use of Portable Spectrometers in Safety and Security Applications
  Pauline Leary, Federal Resources, Stanfordville, USA
• Handheld Raman, SERS, SORS – and their Applications
  Mike Hargreaves, Rigaku Analytical Devices, Wilmington, USA

Portable Spectroscopy within Clinical, DNA and Food
Description: This webinar will focus on portable spectroscopy and how smartphones, rapid DNA analysis and miniaturized sensor are changing the landscape of the Clinical and Food areas. The speakers are:

• A Point of Need? The Rise of the Smartphone In and Out of the Clinic
  Dr. William Peveler, University of Glasgow
• Rapid DNA Analysis – The Need for Speed
  Dr. Claire Glynn, University of New Haven, West Haven, USA
• Applications in Food, Feed, and Agriculture: Current Trends, Arising Opportunities and Remaining Challenges
  Dr. Krzysztof B. Bec & Prof. Mag. Dr. Christian W. Huck, University of Insbruck, Austria

Portable Spectroscopy within Field, Industrial and Anti-Counterfeiting Applications
Description: Portable Spectroscopy is revolutionizing Industrial and field applications.  Join the speakers, all Coblentz Society members, to understand how the technology is applied in their areas of expertise.  The speakers are:

• Portable FTIR Spectroscopy for In-Field Chemical Threat Identification 
  Dr. David Schiering, RedWave Technology, USA
• Applications of Portable Optical Spectrometers in the Chemical Industry
  Dr. Shawn Chen Dow Chemical, USA
• Spectroscopic Detection of Counterfeit Drugs in the Field 
  Dr. Richard Crocombe, Crocombe Spectroscopic Consulting, USA

Organic Spectroscopy
UC Irvine, CHEM203 (undergraduate level)
Instructor: Prof James S. Nowick.
Description: The first 3 lectures cover IR spectroscopy from a chemist point of view.

Advanced Chemical Experimentation and Instrumentation
MIT 5.33 (undergraduate level)
Instructors: Prof. Andrei Tokmakoff and Dr. Mircea Gheorghiu (Laboratory Director)
Description: Advanced experimentation, with particular emphasis on chemical synthesis and the fundamentals of quantum chemistry, illustrated through molecular spectroscopy.

Lecture notes and one IR spectroscopy experiment are available.

Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics
MIT 5.80 (graduate level)
Instructor: Prof. Robert Field
Description: Spectroscopy of small molecules in the gas phase: quantum mechanical effective Hamiltonian models for rotational, vibrational, and electronic structure; transition selection rules and relative intensities; diagnostic patterns and experimental methods for the assignment of non-textbook spectra; breakdown of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation (spectroscopic perturbations); the stationary phase approximation; nondegenerate and quasidegenerate perturbation theory (van Vleck transformation); qualitative molecular orbital theory (Walsh diagrams); the notation of atomic and molecular spectroscopy.

Lecture notes and videos of classes are available. This is an advanced class!

Introduction to IR spectroscopy
Organic Lab Lectures
Instructor: Owen Priest, Northwestern University
(Series of videos, starts at 3)

The Spectroscopy Components Terminology Guide
The Molecular Spectroscopy Terminology Guide
Selected FT-IR spectra of Common Contaminants (Infrared)
Suggested Resources for Spectral Interpretation (Infrared, Raman)

Interview with Jeanette Grasselli-Brown (Audio)
Jeanette Grasselli-Brown is a prominent spectroscopist who has been involved in both Infrared and Raman and is a role model for many of the women in spectroscopy.  Listen to her as she describes the field and her interactions with Clara Craver, who was also instrumental in the Society.

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