The shape as a characteristic property of solvated electron optical absorption bands

1984 ◽  
Vol 88 (17) ◽  
pp. 3811-3818 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. R. Tuttle ◽  
Sidney Golden ◽  
Salia Lwenje ◽  
Catherine M. Stupak
Keyword(s):  
Optical Absorption ◽  
Characteristic Property ◽  
Solvated Electron ◽  
Absorption Bands

Additions and Corrections - The Shape as a Characteristic Property of Solvated Electron Optical Absorption Bands

1985 ◽  
Vol 89 (11) ◽  
pp. 2436-2436 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Tuttle, Jr. ◽  
Sidney Golden ◽  
Salia Lwenje ◽  
Catherine Stupak
Keyword(s):  
Optical Absorption ◽  
Characteristic Property ◽  
Solvated Electron ◽  
Absorption Bands

Article

1998 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-413
Author(s):  
Yixing Zhao ◽  
Gordon R Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Absorption Spectrum ◽  
Optical Absorption ◽  
Temperature Dependence ◽  
Optical Absorption Spectrum ◽  
Infrared Light ◽  
Solvated Electron ◽  
Solvated Electrons ◽  
Tert Butanol ◽  
Solvent Dependence ◽  
Increasing Temperature

The energy and asymmetry of the optical absorption spectrum of solvated electrons, es- , change in a nonlinear fashion on changing the solvent through the series HOH, CH3OH, CH3CH3OH, (CH3)2CHOH, (CH3)3COH. The ultimate, quantum-statistical mechanical, interpretation of solvated electron spectra is needed to describe the solvent dependence. The previously reported optical spectrum of es- in tert-butanol was somewhat inaccurate, due to a small amount of water in the alcohol and to limitations of the infrared light detector. The present note records the remeasured spectrum and its temperature dependence. The value of the energy at the absorption maximum (EAmax) is 155 zJ (0.97 eV) at 299 K and 112 zJ (0.70 eV) at 338 K; the corresponding values of G epsilon max (10-22 m2 aJ-1) are 1.06 and 0.74. These unusually large changes are attributed to the abnormally rapid decrease of dielectric permittivity of tert-butanol with increasing temperature. The band asymmetry at 299 K is Wb/Wr = 1.8.Key words: optical absorption spectrum, solvated electron, solvent effects, tert-butanol, temperature dependence.

Magneto-optical properties of defect centres in alkali halide crystals

1967 ◽  
Vol 300 (1460) ◽  
pp. 78-93 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Optical Absorption ◽  
Silver Atom ◽  
Alkali Halides ◽  
Spin Orbit Coupling ◽  
Spin Orbit ◽  
Coupling Constant ◽  
Absorption Bands ◽  
Optical Effects ◽  
Alkali Halide Crystals ◽  
Defect Centres

Zeeman spectroscopy is not practicable for the investigation of the structure of electronic conventional states which give rise to broad optical absorption bands in solids. We have investigated the application of Faraday rotation and circular dichroism techniques to absorption bands of neutral silver atoms and F centres in alkali halides. These centres give rise to optical absorption bands due to transitions of the type 2 S → 2 P which are 2000 to 6000 cm -1 in width because, in part, of strong coupling to lattice phonons. A discussion is given of information which may be obtained concerning the electonic states involved in the 2 S → 2 P transition by analysis of the magneto-optical effects by the method of moments. It is shown, for example, that the spin-orbit coupling constant of the 2 P state of the silver atom is reduced from 613 cm -1 in the free state to 365 cm -1 in KCl, to 102 cm -1 in KBr and to an unmeasurably small value in KI. This cancellation of spin-orbit interaction of the silver atom is assigned to symmetry allowed admixtures of lattice ion wavefunctions into the 2 P state.

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