Preliminary pages – Title page,
copyright, abstract, preface, contents, lists of tables and figures.
Chapter 1 – “Introduction.”
About electric fields in matter, the
history of Stark spectroscopy, and a brief literature review of
vibrational
Stark effects.
Chapter 2 – “A liquid nitrogen
immersion cryostat for optical measurements.” Identical to the Rev.
Sci. Instrum. 2000 paper, but with a few extra comments. See
the Hardware web page for more about it.
Chapter 3 – “Analysis of noise
for rapid-scan and step-scan methods of FTIR difference spectroscopy.”
Identical to the Appl. Spectrosc. 2001 paper.
Chapter 4 – “Analysis of Stark
spectroscopy data.” This chapter is not published elsewhere
because it is quite technical and is specific to Stark spectroscopy
using immobilized samples. However, it is also the only source I
know of that addresses these details in a precise manner. It also
includes several useful equations for data analysis.
Chapter 5 – “Vibrational Stark
spectroscopy in proteins: A probe and calibration for electrostatic
fields.” Identical to the J. Phys. Chem. B 1999 paper.
Chapter 6 – “Vibrational Stark
effects of nitriles. I. Methods and experimental
results.” Identical to the J. Phys. Chem. A 2000 paper,
but with a few corrections
at the end.
Chapter 7 – “Vibrational Stark
effects of nitriles. II. Physical origins of Stark effects from
experiment and perturbation models.” This is a draft version of
the J. Phys. Chem. A 2002 paper. There is a conceptual
mistake in this chapter regarding the transition dipole moment, caught
by Prof. Noel Hush, which has significant consequences in many
equations and results. These mistakes are corrected in the
journal version, which also includes many other clarifications and
improvements.
Appendix A – “Using rotational
averaging to calculate the response of isotropic and anisotropic bulk
samples.” This is a tutorial on the rotational averaging of
vector products, in which one vector is in the laboratory frame and
another is in the molecule frame. Since it was written, the text
was improved significantly and was published in the Journal of
Chemical
Education in 2004.
Appendix B – “Schematics for
Stark effect controller electronics.” This describes a box of
electronics that I built.
Bibliography – A complete list
of thesis references, with full titles.