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SUMMARY:PChem Seminar – Dr. Gary Douberly
LOCATION:Fulmer Hall
DESCRIPTION:Spectroscopy of Molecular Aggregates in Helium Droplets\n\nGary E. Douberly\n\nDepartment of Chemistry\n\nWashington State University\n\nPullman, Washington 99163, USA\n\nThe first beam of helium droplets was reported in the 1961 paper Strahlen aus kondensiertem Helium im Hochvakuum by Von E. W. Becker and co-workers [1]. However, molecular spectroscopy of helium-solvated dopants wasn't realized until 30 years later in the laboratories of Scoles and Toennies [2,3].\n\nIt has now been over three decades since this early, seminal work on doped helium droplets, yet the field of helium droplet spectroscopy remains fresh with significant potential for addressing a diverse set of problems in molecular science. Analogous in many ways to cryogenic matrix isolation spectroscopy, the helium droplet is an ideal environment to spectroscopically probe difficult to prepare molecular species, such as radicals, carbenes and ions. The quantum nature of helium at 0.4 K often results in molecular spectra that are sufficiently resolved to evoke an analysis of line shapes and fine structure that demands rigorous “effective Hamiltonian” treatments. This lecture will focus on our successful attempts to efficiently dope organic molecular radicals and carbenes into helium droplets. The properties of these systems have been probed with infrared laser spectroscopy, often in the presence of external fields.\n\n[1]  E. W. Becker, R. Klingelhöfer, P. Lohse, Z. Naturforsch. A 16A, 1259 (1961).\n\n[2]  S. Goyal, D. L. Schutt, G. Scoles, Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 933 (1992).\n\n[3]  M. Hartmann, R. E. Miller, J. P. Toennies, A. F. Vilesov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 1566 (1995).
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