Nature Communications (Dec 2016)

Phase-referenced nonlinear spectroscopy of the α-quartz/water interface

  • Paul E. Ohno,
  • Sarah A. Saslow,
  • Hong-fei Wang,
  • Franz M. Geiger,
  • Kenneth B. Eisenthal

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13587
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 5

Abstract

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Probing the polarization of water molecules at charged interfaces reveals insights into surface behaviour, but current methods are limited to isotropic materials. Here the authors exploit the nonlinear optical properties of the α-quartz/water interface to expand the scope of such methods to non-isotropic materials.