Photothermal and Photoacoustic Spectroscopy Sites

a short list of web sites with tutorial photothermal spectroscopy information

Local 

• Power Point of 2008 Gordon Research Conference presentation "Photothermal Deflection Spectroscopy of Collected Aerosols"
   
• Chapter 1 of Photothermal Spectroscopy Methods for Chemical Analysis by Stephen Bialkowski, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (1996)

• Solvent parameters for photothermal and photoacoustic spectrometry

• Nonlinear optical absorption parameter determination with photothermal lens spectrometry

• White light photothermal spectrometry

• Papers at the 10th ICPPP

• Talk at the ICAS 2001 meeting in Tokyo Paper (PDF) of the talk.

Sites in the U.S.

• Dr. John F. McClelland's home page at U.S. DoE Ames Laboratory, Ames, IA. Be sure to check out the NDE Center link while at this site.

• Professor Gerald J. Diebold's home page at Brown University
   
• MTEC Photoacoustics, Inc. provides high performance photoacoustic detector accessories for use in FTIR spectrometers.

• Quantum Northwest, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets laser-based optical instrumentation, in particular, photoacoustic detectors.

• Anter Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA (USA), manufactures dilatometers to measure thermal expansion, thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity meters to measure heat transfer through materials, and drop calorimeters to determine heat capacity, specific heat, and enthalpy change.

• California Analytical Instruments provides photoacoustic gas analyzers and systems for use in industrial, environmental and automotive emissions measurements.

International Sites

• M. A. Claude Boccara, and Daniele Fournier Professeurs at l'ESPCI, Laboratoire d'Optique Physique, ESPCI, Paris, France

• Mladen Franko at the University of Nova Gorica, Slovenija.

• Dr. H. A. MacKenzie from Physics Research at Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh, U.K. Click here for the list of research areas at this excellent site for electro-optical related information

• Professor A. Mandelis' Photothermal and Optoelectronic Diagnostics Laboratories at Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Professor Joan F. Power's research description at McGill University

• Dr. Mikhail Proskurnin and the Thermal Lens Spectrometry Group at Moscow State University.

• Professor M. W. Sigrist's web page at the Infrared Physics Laboratory, The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich, Switzerland, can be found through this link.

• Professor R. D. Snook's research profile at the Department of Instrumentation and Analytical Sciences (DIAS), University of Manchester Institute of Technology (UMIST), Manchester, U.K.

• Masahide Terazima's home page in Kyoto (In Japanese and English)

Conference List

11th International Conference on Photoacoustic and Photothermal Phenomena (11th ICPPP) held August 25-29, 2000, in Kyoto.

12th International Conference on Photoacoustic and Photothermal Phenomena (12th ICPPP) held June 23, 2002, in Toronto.

13th International Conference on Photoacoustic and Photothermal Phenomena (13th ICPPP) held July 5, 2004 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

14th International Conference on Photoacoustic and Photothermal Phenomena (14th ICPPP) held January 6, 2007 in Cairo, Egypt

Data Links

Acoustic parameters for solids, liquids, and gases from Specialty Engineering Associates (SEA), Soquel, California (USA). Tables include dV/dT, sound speed, heat capacities, and acoustic attenuation parameters.

Exhaustive compilation of singlet oxygen formation and reaction rate constants

Problems or suggestions? Contact

Professor Stephen E. Bialkowski
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Utah State University
Logan, UT 84322-0300 USA
Office phone: (435) 797-1907 FAX: (435) 797-3390
Email: Stephen.Bialkowski@usu.edu

Last updated February 25, 2008