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Links to other FTIR sources:

• FTIR Companies:
  • Bruker Optics (BL1.4.2 has a Bruker IFS 66v/S FTIR spectrometer.)
  • Thermo-Fischer Scientific (BL1.4.3 has the Magna 760 FTIR spectrometer with Nic-Plan Microscope; BL1.4.4 has the Nexus 870 FTIR spectrometer with a Continuum XL Microscope.)
  • Other FTIR spectrometer companies: Bomem, Perkin-Elmer, MIDAC, Sciencetech, Varian (was Bio-Rad, then Digilab), Design & Prototypes.
  • Pike Technologies, Harrick Scientific, Remspec, MKS FTIR Gas Analyzers, International Crystal Labs IR accessories
  • IR Associates detectors.
  • Aldrich Techware for IR Spectroscopy
  • Galactic Software (makers of GRAMS32)
  • FDM Reference Spectra
  • Nicodom ir-spectra.com Spectral Libraries
• Spectra available on the web:
  • Galactic's Spectra On-line
  • FTIRSearch.com - an extensive pay as you search on-line library.
  • SDBS - Integrated Spectral Data Base System for Organic Compounds, Free.
  • TeleSpec - IR Spectra Simulation, free IR database, and 3D Structure Prediction via the Internet
  • BioRad FTIR Databases and Software
  • S.T. Japan-Europe has ATR spectral databases with a free evaluation.
  • Collection of Hazardous Air Pollutants (in GRAMS .spg format)
  • David Sullivan's FTIR Spectra Library (in JCAMP-DX format)
  • IR Spectra of paints and coatings
  • And try the JCAMP-DX Plug-In for your web browser: CHIME 2 (beta) includes a JCAMP-DX viewer
  • Animated IR Spectroscopy (AIRS): See annimations of vibrational modes from a number of molecules.
• Other Synchrotron IR facilities:
  A nice review: A bright source for infrared microspectroscopy: synchrotron radiation," Paul Dumas and Mark J. Tobin, Spectroscopy Europe 15/6, 17-23 (2003).
  The Synchrotron Infrared Imaging technique is featured on the DOE web site.
  • NSLS Infrared page, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • IR Spectromiscrospocy at SRC, Wisconsin
  • MIRAGE at LURE, France
  • VUV-IR Group at Daresbury SRS, England
  • S.IN.B.A.D. - Synchrotron Infrared Beamline At Dafne, Italy
    and their Infrared Synchrotron Radiation Database
  • Beamline 73 at MAX-lab, Sweden
  • IRIS beamline at BESSY, Germany
  • IR beamlines are being planned or are under construction at: Canadian Light Source, SRRC (Taiwan), ANKA (Karlsruhe, Germany), DELTA (Dortmund, Germany), NSRC, (Hefei, China), SPring-8 (Japan), CAMD (Baton-Rouge, USA), SLS (Switzerland), and SESAME (Middle East).
• Other Infrared Spectroscopy Groups
  • Institute for Biodiagnostics, NRC (Canada)
  • Optical Spectroscopy Group (Leo Degiorgi), ETH Zurich
• More spectroscopy links from IJVS.

• How does FTIR work? and How FTIR works II.
• Synchrotron Radiation in infrared spectroscopy, by Allan Morris. Nice overview with details for the Daresbury Synchrotron.
• Issue devoted to "microscopic vibrational spectroscopy" - FTIR, NIR, and Raman Microscopy
• Synchrotron Infrared Microspectrometry applied to petrography in micron scale range, N. Guilhaumou, P . Dumas, J. Ingrin, G. L. Carr, and G. P. Williams.
• Preparation of Samples for IR Spectroscopy as KBr Disks, Geoffrey Dent.
• The Background to Sample Preparation for Infrared Transmission Measurements on Solids, William Maddams.
• Molecular Vibrations - a simple tutorial
• Infrared Reflection Methods, and Diffuse Reflectance for the routine analysis of Liquids and Solids
• A list of books for the spectroscopist

For those trying to understand how the FTIR method works, here is a nice site describing Michelson's Interferometer in detail.

We use CVD grown Diamond windows to extract the infrared beam from the vacuum of the synchrotron ring. Here is a site about CVD Diamond Optics.

If you have an hour, here are two on-line videos:
Mike's Talk, "Synchrotron Infrared Science: Physics, Biology, Environmental Science and Coherence" given at CSU Hayward on Nov. 17, 2003.
and an Introductory lecture to synchrotron radiation given by Herman Winick, April 27, 2004.

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