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Published on: July 27, 2018
Predicting the structural evolution of Gen- (3 ≤ n ≤ 20) clusters: an anion photoelectron spectroscopy simulation
1College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Songjiang District, Shanghai 201620, China. weian@sues.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Spectroscopic evidence for the structural evolution of Gen- (3 ≤ n ≤ 20) clusters is provided by means of simulated anion photoelectron spectra (PES). Both adiabatic detachment energies and HOMO-LUMO gaps of the selected low-lying candidates match well with those measured in experiment. This work demonstrates that PES is a highly sensitive technique for probing both electronic and geometric structures of atomic clusters, whose structural evolution is an elemental signature with characteristic features.
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