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. 1996 Oct 29;93(22):12104–12111. doi: 10.1073/pnas.93.22.12104

A few selected applications of surface nonlinear optical spectroscopy.

Y R Shen 1
PMCID: PMC37950  PMID: 8901540

Abstract

As a second-order nonlinear optical process, sum-frequency generation is highly surface-specific and accordingly has been developed into a very powerful and versatile surface spectroscopic tool. It has found many unique applications in different disciplines and thus provided many exciting new research opportunities in surface and surface-related science. Selected examples are discussed here to illustrate the power of the technique.

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