Abstract
Photothermal displacement spectroscopy has been shown to be an extremely sensitive technique for detecting minute thermally induced volume changes on solid surfaces.1,2 In this technique, a position sensitive detector measures the angular deflection of a probe laser beam from a bump on the surface of the sample induced by thermal expansion following optical absorption of a much stronger excitation laser.
© 1988 Optical Society of America
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