Raman
Background reading and technical notes
The Horiba academy offers tutorials on Raman Spectrscopy available here Raman academy.
Useful software and tool boxes
Both WiRE & LabSpec software packages are available on a remote desktop, Statler, which can be accessed from PCs on Campus. Availability can be found on the remote desk top page here remote desk top booking. To request access to the remote desktop please contact spectroscopy@warwick.ac.uk . CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE
EPR
Background reading and technical notes
Quantitative EPR provides a brief introduction to experimental EPR and is available as an ebook from the library
The national institue of envirometal health maintain a spin trap database that is located on their website niehs.gov
Useful software and tool boxes
We have prepared a parameter checking tool for CW-EPR experiments which you can download EPR Parameter Check
EasySpin is an open-source matlab toolbox for simulating and fitting a wide range of Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) spectra. It can be downloaded for free form easyspin.org
Victor Chechik at the University of York has created an online interactive EPR simulator which is an excellent tool for understanding simple spectra. it can be found at eprsimulator.org
Optical Absorption
Background reading and technical notes
ThermoFisher have a selection of tutorials available in their Spectroscopy academy including FT-IR here
PerkinElmer have an extensive archive of application notes available from www.perkinelmer.com/category/uv-vis-spectroscopy-uv. including notes on characterisation of photovolteic cells and carbon nanotubes.
Useful software and tool boxes
ThermoFisher offer free access to a cloud based version of their omnic fitting and analysis software. Details of how to access it can be found it can be found on the ThermoFisher website
General
Spectragryph is an optical spectroscopy analysis package that can process UV-VIS, NIR, FTIR, Raman, and fluorescence data. It also has capability to automate processing for large data sets. The package is free for academic use and can be downloaded from effemm2.de/spectragryph/index.html.
the Halas Research Group have a very useful unit converter available on their website http://halas.rice.edu/conversions