Surface nonlinear optics [Invited]

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2011, Pages A56-A66

  Shen, Y R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBES; TECHNOLOGY;

PROBE SURFACE; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SECOND HARMONICS; SUM FREQUENCY GENERATION; SURFACE AND INTERFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE NONLINEAR OPTICS; SURFACE SCIENCE;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 83155168366     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.28.000A56     Document Type: Article

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78. C. D. Stanners, Q. Du, R. P. Chin, P. Cremer, G. A. Somorjai, and Y. R. Shen, “Polar ordering at the liquid-vapor interface of N-alcohols(C-1-C-8),” Chem. Phys. Lett. 232, 407–413 (1995).
79. G. A. Sefler, Q. Du, P. B. Miranda, and Y. R. Shen, “Surface crystallization of liquid N-alkanes and alcohol monolayers studied by surface vibrational spectroscopy,” Chem. Phys. Lett. 235, 347–354 (1995).
80. D. Zhang, J. H. Gunow, K. B. Eisenthal, and T. F. Heinz, “Sudden structural change at an air/binary liquid interface: Sum frequency study of the air/acetonitrileCwater interface,” J. Chem. Phys. 98, 5099–5101 (1993).
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82. J. Y. Huang, and M. H. Wu, “Nonlinear optical studies of binary mixtures of hydrogen bonded liquids,” Phys. Rev. E 50, 3737–3746 (1994).
83. D. Zhang, Y. R. Shen, and G. A. Somorjai, “Studies of surface structures and compositions of polyethylene and polypropylene by IR plus visible sum frequency vibrational spectroscopy,” Chem. Phys. Lett. 281, 394–400 (1997).
84. D. Zhang, D. H. Gracias, R. Ward, M. Gauchler, Y. Tian, Y. R. Shen, and G. A. Somorjai, “Surface studies of polymer blends by sum frequency vibrational spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy, and contact angle goniometry,” J. Phys. Chem. B 102, 6225–6230 (1998).
85. Z. Chen, R. Ward, Y. Tian, A. S. Eppler, Y. R. Shen, and G. A. Somorjai, “Surface composition of biopolymer blends biospanSP/phenoxy and biospan-F/phenoxy observed with SFG, XPS, and contact angle goniometry,” J. Phys. Chem. B 103, 2935–2942 (1999).
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87. R. P. Chin, J. Y. Huang, Y. R. Shen, T. J. Chuang, and H. Seki, “Interaction of atomic hydrogen with the diamond C(111) surface studied by infrared-visible sum-frequency-generation spectroscopy,” Phys. Rev. B 52, 5985–5995 (1995).
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92. Y. M. Chang, L. Xu, and H. W. K. Tom, “Coherent phonon spectroscopy of GaAs surfaces using time-resolved second harmonic generation,” Chem. Phys. 251, 283–308 (2000).
93. V. Vogel, “What do nonlinear optical techniques have to offer the biosciences?” Current opinion in colloid and interface science 1, 257–263 (1996).
94. J. Wang, S. M. Buck, M. A. Even, and Z. Chen, “Molecular responses of proteins at different interfacial environments detected by sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 13302–13305 (2002).
95. J. Wang, S. M. Buck, and Z. Chen, “Sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy studies on protein adsorption,” J. Phys. Chem. B 106, 11666–11672 (2002).
96. J. S. Salafsky, and K. B. Eisenthal, “Second harmonic spectroscopy: detection and orientation of molecules at a biomembrane interface,” Chem. Phys. Lett. 319, 435–439 (2000).
97. Y. Liu, E. C. Y. Yan, and K. B. Eisenthal, “Effect of cholesterol on molecular transport of organic cations across liposome bilayers probed by second harmonic generation,” Biophys. J. 79, 898–903 (2000).
98. Y. Liu, E. C. Y. Yan, and K. B. Eisenthal, “Effects of bilayer surface charge density on molecular adsorption and transport across liposome bilayers,” Biophys. J. 80, 1004–1012 (2001).
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102. J. Liu, and J. C. Conboy, “Direct measurement of the transbilayer movement of phospholipids by sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 8376–8377 (2004).
103. J. Liu, and J. C. Conboy, “1,2-diacyl-phosphatidylcholine flipflop measured directly by sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy,” Biophys. J. 89, 2522–2532 (2005).
104. T. C. Anglin, and J. C. Conboy, “Kinetics and thermodynamics of flip-flop in binary phospholipid membranes measured by sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy,” Biochemistry 48, 10220–10234 (2009).
105. T. C. Anglin, J. Liu, and J. C. Conboy, “Facile lipid flip-flop in a phospholipid bilayer induced by gramicidin A measured by sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy,” Biophys. J. 92, L01–L03 (2007).
106. T. C. Anglin, K. L. Brown, and J. C. Conboy, “Phospholipid flipflop modulated by transmembrane peptides WALP and melittin,” J. Struct. Biol. 168, 37–52 (2009).
107. J. Liu, and J. C. Conboy, “Phase transition of a single lipid bilayer measured by sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 8894–8895 (2004).
108. J. Liu, and J. C. Conboy, “Asymmetric distribution of lipids in a phase segregated phospholipid bilayer observed by sumfrequency vibrational spectroscopy,” J. Phys. Chem. C 111, 8988–8999 (2007).
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112. A. L. Harris, and N. J. Levinos, “Vibrational energy relaxation in a molecular monolayer at a metal surface,” J. Chem. Phys. 90, 3878–3879 (1989).
113. A. L. Harris, L. Rothberg, L. H. Dubos, N. J. Levinos, and L. Dahr, “Molecular vibrational energy relaxation at a metal surface: Methyl thiolate on Ag(111),” Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2086–2089 (1990).
114. P. Guyto-Sionnest, P. Dumas, Y. J. Chabal, and G. S. Higashi, “Lifetime of an adsorbate-substrate vibration: H on Si(111),” Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2156–2159 (1990).
115. R. P. Chin, X. Blas, Y. R. Shen, and S. Louie, “Anharmonicity and lifetime of the CH stretch mode on diamond H/C(111)-(1x1),” Euro. Phys. Lett. 30, 399–404 (1995).
116. P. Guyot-Sionnest, “Coherent processes at surfaces: Freeinduction decay and photon echo of the Si-H stretching vibration for H/Si(111),” Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1489–1492 (1991).
117. X. D. Zhu, and Y. R., “Surface photon echoes in the infrared range,” Shen. Appl. Phys. B50, 535–539 (1990).
118. M. Bonn, C. Hess, S. Funk, J. H. Miners, B. N. Persson, M. Wolf, and G. Ertl, “Femtosecond surface vibrational spectroscopy of CO adsorbed on Ru(001) during desorption,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4653–4656 (2000).
119. J. A. McGuire, and Y. R. Shen, “Ultrafast vibrational dynamics at water interfaces,” Science 313, 1945–1948 (2006).
120. M. Smit, A. Ghosh, M. Sterrer, M. Muller, and M. Bonn, “Ultrafast vibrational energy transfer between surface and bulk water at the air-water interface,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 098302-1–098302-4 (2007).
121. H. Wang, E. C. Y. Yan, E. Borguet, and K. B. Eisenthal, “Second harmonic generation from the surface of centrosymmetric particles in bulk solution,” Chem. Phys. Lett. 259, 15–20 (1996).
122. J. M. Hartings, “Second harmonic generation and fluorescence images from surfactants on hanging droplets,” A. Poon, X. Pu, R. K. Chang, and T. M. Leslie, Chem. Phys. Lett. 281, 389–393 (1997).
123. J. I. Dadap, J. Shan, K. B. Eisenthal, and T. F. Heinz, “Secondharmonic Rayleigh scattering from a sphere of centrosymmetric material,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4045–4048 (1999).
124. N. Yang, W. E. Angerer, and A. G. Yodh, “Angle-resolved secondharmonic light scattering from colloidal particles,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 103902-1–103902-4 (2001).
125. S. Roke, W. G. Roeterkink, J. E. G. J. Wijnhoven, A. V. Petukhov, A. W. Kleyn, and M. Bonn, “Vibrational sum frequency scattering from a submicron suspension,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 258302-1–258302-4 (2003).