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Recently, the development of dual phase-sensitive (PS) SFVS and the combined PS SFVS and difference frequency vibrational spectroscopy (DFVS) techniques have greatly enhanced the sensitivity for detecting the scale of the interfacial depth profile, but the detailed structural variation of the depth profile is still not susceptible to being explored except for simple cases of low bulk ion concentrations. We suggest here that by extending the technique of combined PS-SFVS and DFVS to several different pairs of sum and difference frequencies, we could extract, through spectral analysis, a set of vibrational spectra in connection with a set of consecutive individual sub-layers of a charged water interface. 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