Overtone Spectroscopy of Hydrogen in MOF-5

Acknowledgements First and foremost I would like to thank my adviser Professor Stephen FitzGerald for his advice and support, for always making time to answer my questions and for showing me how fascinating, frustrating and rewarding experimental physics can be. I am grateful for the opportunity to pursue this work which has been a significant and enjoyable part of my time at Oberlin. I thank my labmates past and present:Donald for interesting and helpful conversations and fun times in lab. Many thanks to Professor Jesse Rowsell for synthesizing our MOFs and for his helpful conversations and insights into the structure and behavior of these materials. I thank Professor Jason Stalnaker for his advice and for teaching me much of the physics I know now. I thank Ben for being a great friend and for wonderful conversations about physics and life. I thank my fellow physics students including but not limited to Kathryn Hasz, for their friendship and company which made even all night problem sets not only bearable but great fun. I would like to thank Donald Nelson for invaluable help proof reading.