This book will fulfill the needs of time-domain spectroscopists who wish to deepen their understanding of both the theoretical and experimental features of this cutting-edge spectroscopy technique. Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy (CMDS) is a state-of-the-art technique with applications in a variety of subjects like chemistry, molecular physics, biochemistry, biophysics, and material science. Due to dramatic advancements of ultrafast laser technologies, diverse multidimensional spectroscopic methods utilizing combinations of THz, IR, visible, UV, and X-ray radiation sources have been developed and used to study real time dynamics of small molecules in solutions, proteins and nucleic acids in condensed phases and membranes, single and multiple excitons in functional materials like semiconductors, quantum dots, and solar cells, photo-excited states in light-harvesting complexes, ions in battery electrolytes, electronic and conformational changes in charge or proton transfer systems, and excess electrons and protons in water and biological systems.

Offers complete theoretical descriptions of coherent multidimensional spectroscopy (CMDS) to further understanding of the underlying principles Describes applications of CMDS over a broad range of frequencies to demonstrate its versatility Helps researchers and graduate students to develop novel tools in spatial and time-resolved vibrational and electronic spectroscopy and imaging

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Minhaeng Cho was born in Seoul. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemistry from Seoul National University in 1987 and 1989 and a Ph.D. from University of Chicago in 1993 under the direction of Graham R. Fleming. After two years of postdoctoral training at MIT in Robert J. Silbey's group from 1994 to 1996, he has been on the faculty of Korea University since March 1996, where he was the director of the Center for Multidimensional Spectroscopy from 2000 to 2009. In December 2014, he was appointed as the Director of the IBS (Institute for Basic Science) Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics, located in Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.
His research interests are theoretical and computational chemistry and ultrafast nonlinear optical spectroscopy. He was elected as a member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST) in 2002. He is a recipient of the Nobel Laureate Signatures Award (American Chemical Society) in 1995, Young Scientist Award (Ministry of Science and Technology, Korea) in 1999, Kyung-Am Prize in 2010, KAST Award in 2011, and Korea National Academy of Science Award in 2012.

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Chapter 1 Introduction to Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy (Minhaeng Cho). -Chapter 2 Two-Dimensional Electronic Vibrational Spectroscopy (Graham R. Fleming, Nicholas H. C Lewis, E. A. Arsenault, Eric C. Wu, and Sabine Oldemeyer). - Chapter 3 Nuclear Wave-Packet Dynamics in Two-Dimensional Interferograms of Excitation-Transfer Systems (Jeffrey A. Cina and Alexis J. Kiessling). -Chapter 4 The Development and Applications of Phase Cycling in Multidimensional Optical Spectroscopy (Howe-Siang Tan). -Chapter 5 Four-Dimensional Coherent Spectroscopy (Elad Harel). -Chapter 6 Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy of Gold Nanorods: Nondal Line Slope Analysis and Spectral Interference (Hanju Rhee and Minhaeng Cho). - Chapter 7 Fully Coherent Schrödinger Cat State Spectroscopy and the Future of CMDS (John C. Wright). -Chapter 8 Noncovalent Interactions of Hydrated DNA and RNA Mapped by 2D-IR Spectroscopy (Benjamin P. Fingerhut and Thomas Elsaesser). - Chapter 9 Two-Dimensional Terahertz-Infrared-Visible Spectroscopy Elucidates Coupling between Low- and High-Frequency Modes (Laura Vietze, Mischa Bonn, and Maksim Grechko). -Chapter 10 Ultrafast Vibrational Dynamics at Aqueous Interfaces Studied by 2D Heterodyne-Detected Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy (Ken-ichi Inoue, Satoshi Nihonyanagi, and Tahei Tahara). -Chapter 11 Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Hydrogenase Enzyme Models (Peter A. Eckert and Kevin Kubarych). - Chapter 12 Vibrational Frequency Fluctuations of Ionic and Non-ionic Vibrational Probe Molecules in Aqueous Solutions (Masaki Okuda, Masahiro Higashi, Kaoru Ohta, Shinji Saito, and Keisuke Tominaga). - Chapter 13 Surface-Enhanced Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy of Nanometer-Thick Films Using Plasmonic Nano-Arrays (Robert T. Mackin, Bar Cohn, Lev Chuntonov, and Igor Rubtsov). -Chapter 14 The Development of Coherent Multidimensional Microspectroscopy (Clara A. Tibbetts, Bradley M. Luther, and Amber T. Krummel). -Chapter 15 Frequency Comb-BasedMultidimensional Coherent Spectroscopy (Bachana Lomsadze and Steven T. Cundiff). -Chapter 16 Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Chromophores in Condensed Phases with Multiple Frequency Combs (JunWoo Kim and Minhaeng Cho) . -Index