“…Surface second harmonic generation has been employed in studies of monolayer photopolymerisation , the formation and reorganisation of monlayer films (Rasing et al, 1988(Rasing et al, , 1985, surface acid and base equilibria (Bhattacharyya et al, 1987, adsorbate orientation (Heinz et al, 1983(Heinz et al, ,1982 Petersen and Hams, 1989; Goh er af., 1988), surface symmetry (Heinz et al, 1985), and electrode processes (Voss et al, 1986). Following the original experiment of Shank and co-workers (1983), the ultrafast response time of the SSHG signal has been used as a probe of surface reaction dynamics on a picosecond timescale Eisenthal, 1988, 1989; Yoshihara, 1989,1990).…”