Confocal Raman Microscopy

Part I. Introduction

1. Raman’s Discovery in Historical Context
Simona Cintă Pînzaru, Wolfgang Kiefer

Part II. Theory and Technology

2. High Resolution Optical and Confocal Microscopy
Olaf Hollricher, Wolfram Ibach

3. Introduction to the Fundamentals of Raman Spectroscopy
Benjamin Dietzek, Dana Cialla, Michael Schmitt, Jürgen Popp

4. Raman Instrumentation for Confocal Raman Microscopy
Olaf Hollricher

5. Software Requirements and Data Analysis in Confocal Raman Microscopy
Thomas Dieing, Wolfram Ibach

6. Resolution and Performance of 3D Confocal Raman Imaging Systems
Thomas Dieing

Part III. New Materials

7. Nano-spectroscopy of Individual Carbon Nanotubes and Isolated Graphene Sheets
Alain Jungen

8. Characterization of Graphene by Confocal Raman Spectroscopy
Christoph Neumann, Christoph Stampfer

9. Low Frequency Raman Scattering of Two-Dimensional Materials Beyond Graphene
Hailong Hu, Ze Xiang Shen, Ting Yu

Part IV. Geosciences

10. Raman Spectroscopy and Confocal Raman Imaging in Mineralogy and Petrography
Marc Fries, Andrew Steele

11. Application of Raman Imaging in UHPM Research
Andrey V. Korsakov

12. Multiscale Chemical Imaging of Complex Biological and Archaeological Materials
James C. Weaver, Admir Masic

Part V. Life Sciences and Pharmaceutics

13. Raman Micro-spectral Imaging of Cells and Intracellular Drug Delivery Using Nanocarrier Systems
Christian Matthäus, Tatyana Chernenko, Clara Stiebing, Luis Quintero, Miloš Miljković, Lara Milane, Amit Kale, Mansoor Amiji, Stefan Lorkowski, Vladimir Torchilin, Jürgen Popp, Max Diem

14. Raman Imaging of Biomedical Samples
Agnieszka Kaczor, Katarzyna M. Marzec, Katarzyna Majzner, Kamila Kochan, Marta Z. Pacia, Malgorzata Baranska

15. ISERS Microscopy for Tissue-Based Cancer Diagnostics with SERS Nanotags
Yuying Zhang, Sebastian Schlücker

16. Confocal Raman Microscopy in Pharmaceutical Development
Thomas F. Haefele, Kurt Paulus

17. Raman Spectroscopy in Skin Research and Dermal Drug Delivery
Nathalie Jung, Branko Vukosavljevic, Maike Windbergs

18. Characterization of Therapeutic Coatings on Medical Devices
Klaus Wormuth

19. Raman Imaging of Plant Cell Walls
Notburga Gierlinger

Part VI. Materials Science

20. Confocal Raman Imaging of Polymeric Materials
Ute Schmidt, Jörg Müller, Joachim Koenen

21. Stress Analysis by Means of Raman Microscopy
Thomas Wermelinger, Ralph Spolenak

22. Confocal Raman Microscopy Can Make a Large Difference: Resolving and Manipulating Ferroelectric Domains forPiezoelectric Engineering
Fernando Rubio-Marcos, Adolfo Campo, Jose F. Fernandez

Part VII. Correlative Microscopy

23. RISE: Correlative Confocal Raman and Scanning Electron Microscopy
Guillaume Wille, Ute Schmidt, Olaf Hollricher

Keywords: Physics, Spectroscopy and Microscopy, Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films, Biological Microscopy, Microbiology, Mineralogy, Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films