Publication
Names
  • Hsiao-Chi Lu
  • Hong-Kai Chen
  • Bing-Ming Cheng
  • J.~F. Ogilvie
Title
Absorption spectra in the vacuum ultraviolet region of small molecules in condensed phases
Abstract
With radiation from a synchrotron we measured the spectra of several small molecular species, in the solid phase at 10 K, either pure - O$_2$, NO, CO$_2$, N$_2$O, H$_2$O and NH$_3$ - or, for NH$_3$, also dispersed in Ar at molar ratio 1/250, from the onset of absorption in the ultraviolet region until the limits of transmission by crystalline LiF or solid Ar. In a quantitative treatment of spectral data, we fitted the total absorption profile divided by wavenumber to Gaussian curves of minimal number, and made tentative assignments of electronic transitions and vibrational structure by comparison with spectra of gaseous species. These results illuminate the nature of electronic spectra of samples in solid phases in the vacuum ultraviolet region.
Keywords
spectroscopy, transmission spectra, VUV, band position, band width, band vibration mode, ices, gas, molecular solids, CO2, O2, NO, N2O, H2O, NH3
Content
spectral data, band list data, experimental physics
Year
2008
Journal
Spectrochimica Acta, Part A
Volume
71
Number
4
Pages
1485 - 1491
Pages number
7
Document type
article
Publication state
published