Synchrotron Infrared Spectroscopy

Today, most synchrotron facilities offer beamlines dedicated to infrared (IR) spectroscopy and IR microspectroscopy. The main advantage of synchrotron-based infrared spectroscopy is the brightness of the synchrotron radiation source which can provide a brightness two or three orders of magnitude higher than a thermal (black-body radiation) infrared source. Thus, synchrotron-based infrared spectroscopy allows a high spatial resolution (infrared microspectroscopy) and a high spectral resolution, especially for low-throughput technologies and far-infrared spectroscopy. In this article, a brief introduction to synchrotron-based infrared spectroscopy and its application will be given.