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Dithranol as a Matrix for Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Imaging on a Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometer
Published on: November 26, 2013
High-resolution spectroscopy of matrix-isolated ReO4-molecules
A R Chraplyvy1, W E Moerner, A J Sievers
1Physics Department, General Motors Research Laboratories, Warren, Michigan 48090, USA.
Abstract:
The temperature-dependent linewidth of the saturable infrared active nu(3) vibrational mode (10.8 microm) of ReO(4)(-) molecules in pure-KI host crystals has been measured between 2 and 600 K. Below 20 K the absorption line is inhomogeneously broadened and has a 0.016-cm(-1) width (FWHM). Above 30 K the transition is homogeneously broadened by elastic acoustic phonon-scattering processes. The low-temperature inhomogeneous width of ReO(4)(-) molecules in KI:RbI alloys is 2 orders of magnitude larger than for the pure KI crystal, and the absorption is coincident with the 10.8-microm P(42) CO(2) laser line at all temperatures.
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