Chapter: Dust and Nanoparticle Spectroscopy

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Introduction: Recent results of observational spectroscopy
Henning                                                                                                                       (10 pages)
Section: The optical constants of solids of cosmic dust relevance

Posch, Koike, Jäger, Mutschke                                                                                               (20 pages)
     - Experimental tools, status and general problems
     - Silicates - amorphous and crystalline
     - Carbonaceous solids - graphite, diamond, HAC
     - Other refractory components - oxides, sulfides, carbides
     - Ices
Section: Some special aspects in laboratory dust measurements

Mutschke                                                                                                                     (15 pages)
     - Band profiles, shape and matrix effects
     - Influence of temperature on infrared bands
     - UV spectroscopy and the Interstellar Extinction Hump
     - Absorption and emission at submm wavelengths
Section: Laboratory studies of IDPs and comet dust

L.P. Keller                                                                                                                   (10 pages)
Section: Photoluminescence studies of nanoparticles

Huisken, Borczyskowski, Scholz                                                                                              (20 pages)
     - role of nanoparticles in space (Si-NPs, C-NPs, diamonds)
     - Extended Red Emission
     - optical properties of NPs (photoluminescence, quantum confinement
       and enhanced surface/volume ratio),
     - NPs in solid matrices,
     - time-dependent-DFT electronic structure and PL lineshapes of NPs (n<300),