Celebrating 25 Years of Two-dimensional Infrared (2D IR) Spectroscopy
Coherent two-dimensional infrared (2D IR) spectroscopy was first demonstrated by Hamm, Lim, and Hochstrasser in 1998 as a frequency resolved “pump probe” technique to probe molecular structure and dynamics on the picosecond timescale. Over the past 25 years 2D IR has since become a powerful spectroscopic technique, to solve key problems in chemistry, molecular biology, and materials science. Implementations of 2D IR spectroscopy have continued to evolve. For example, pulse-shapers and new-generation ultrafast lasers have lowered the barriers to new researchers entering the field and shifted the focus towards more challenging applications. There has been a continued push to expand the frontiers of optical spectroscopy based on initial 2D IR developments, including Transient 2D IR, 2D Visible-IR, 2D IR-Visible, spatially resolved IR or visible, SFG 2D IR and surface-enhanced multidimensional methods among others. This JCP Special Issue features recent advancements in coherent multidimensional spectroscopy inspired by 2D IR and explores the future of this thriving field.
Topics covered include, but are not limited to:
- Applications of multidimensional spectroscopy spanning the UV-THz and beyond
- Experimental implementations of multidimensional spectroscopy
- Spatially-resolved multidimensional spectroscopy
- Theoretical approaches to simulating multidimensional spectra
- Analysis and interpretation of multidimensional spectra
- Mixed frequency multidimensional spectroscopies
Guest Editors
Carlos Baiz, University of Texas at Austin
Minhaeng Cho, Korea University
Jens Bredenbeck, University of Frankfurt
Thomas Jansen, University of Groningen
Amber Krummel, Colorado State University
Sean Roberts, University of Texas at Austin
JCP Editors
Jennifer Ogilvie, University of Michigan
Qiang Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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