Measurement of the autoionization lifetime of the superexcited atomic sulfur S(3s23p3(2Do)4d) state using tunable vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) radiation

2004 ◽  
Vol 82 (6) ◽  
pp. 885-890 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianhua Huang ◽  
Dadong Xu ◽  
Alexei Stuchebrukhov ◽  
William M Jackson

A new method is described that combines a tunable coherent vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) radiation source and an ion velocity imaging apparatus to study the autoionization of superexcited sulfur atoms. The photolysis of CS2 at 193 nm is used to produce metastable sulfur atoms in the 1D2 state. The S(1D2) atom is then directly excited to the neutral superexcited state 3s23p3(2Do)4d (1Do2) at 11.317 eV with a tunable VUV photon at ~121.896 nm. This excited state then undergoes autoionization into the first ionization continuum state of S+(4So3/2) + e–, which is not directly accessible from the S(1D2) state through optical transition. By monitoring the S+ signal in the time-of-flight mass spectrometer while scanning the excitation wavelength, the line profile of the 3s23p34d 1Do2 ← 3s23p4 1D2 transition is recorded and found to have a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of 0.9 cm–1. This has been used to determine an autoionization lifetime of the neutral superexcited 3s23p34d 1Do2 state of 5.9 ps. The accurate measurement of the autoionization lifetime provides a benchmark for testing fundamental theoretical models of processes occurring in excited states of atoms. Key words: autoionization, atomic sulfur, vacuum ultraviolet (VUV), full width at half maximum (FWHM).

1987 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 661-667 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Cooper ◽  
David L. Bolton ◽  
Steven T. Schuschereba ◽  
Elmar T. Schmeisser

To gain insight into the photochemistry of oxidized amino acids, we have measured chemiluminescence and Raman spectra of persulfate oxidized tyrosine (POT). Chemiluminescence kinetics were obtained from a sealed capillary tube containing a basic POT solution. Excitation at 488.0 nm and monitoring emission at 633 nm produced a first-order rise and a second-order decay in intensity to steady-state levels. We collected steady-state emission spectra from a flow system excited by argon-ion and helium-neon laser radiation. The full-width at half-maximum, position, and intensity of fluorescence were measured. The full-width at half-maximum (3600 cm−1) was independent of excitation wavelength. At higher energy excitation, the emission maximum was independent of excitation line. At lower energy excitation, the emission maximum varied with the excitation line. The emission intensity dropped by a factor of 6 as the excitation wavelength was varied from 465.8 nm to 514.5 nm. Luminescence was also observed upon excitation at 632.8 nm of this compound dissolved in DMSO. Raman data, obtained from solid polymer suspended in a KBr pellet (rotating sample cell, 488.0 nm excitation, S cm−1 bandpass), revealed broad bands at 1385 cm−1, 1590–1615 cm−1, and 2930 cm−1 superimposed upon a weak fluorescent background. Upon ultraviolet laser excitation (363.8 nm, 5 mW power on the sample, 5 cm−1 bandpass), a single broad band appeared, centered at 1300 cm−1. The difference from visible excitation implies that resonance enhancement from an ultraviolet absorbing chromophore occurred.


2021 ◽  
Vol 247 ◽  
pp. 08006
Author(s):  
Ingrid Vavtar ◽  
Luka Snoj

An evaluation of validity of theoretical pulse models (Fuchs-Hansen and Nordheim-Fuchs model) in reactor pulse modelling was performed by developing so called Improved Pulse Model. The effect of each of the five assumptions on the most important pulse physical parameters, maximal power, total released energy and full width at half maximum was studied. In the Improved Pulse Model the assumptions are disposed out with the improvements, where to account the delayed neutrons the six point kinetic equations are solved, the temperature dependences of the temperature reactivity coefficient of fuel and specific heat are taken into account, also the final ejected time of transient control rod from reactor core, whose value of reactivity varies in height and the heat dissipation from the fuel are considered. It is found that the theoretical models predict a higher maximum power, lower total released energy and full width at half maximum than the Improved Pulse Model.


1996 ◽  
Vol 422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dieter Haase ◽  
Achim Dörnen ◽  
Kenichiro Takahei ◽  
Akihito Taguchi

AbstractWe analyze the Zeeman effect of the 4/13/2 → 4/15/2 transition of Er3+ in GaAs:Er,O grown by metal-organic vapor-phase epitaxy. The photoluminescence spectrum has been assigned previously to one specific Er-O complex. The dominant optical transition at 1538 nm (6499.5 cm−1), which shows a full width at half maximum of only 0.05 cm−1, has been investigated by high-resolution Zeeman spectroscopy. A highly anisotropic Zeeman pattern is found which indicates the low symmetry of the underlying complex. A detailed analysis shows that the defect has a predominant rhombic symmetry C2v,. Additionally, smaller contributions of a crystal field with a monoclinic symmetry Clh are found. The results provide further arguments that an ErO2 complex is the responsible center observed.


2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 649-652
Author(s):  
Fang-fang Li ◽  
Yu-jie Ma ◽  
Jia-xing Liu ◽  
Guan-jun Wang ◽  
Feng-yan Wang
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2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 6919
Author(s):  
Majid Masnavi ◽  
Martin Richardson

A series of experiments is described which were conducted to measure the absolute spectral irradiances of laser plasmas created from metal targets over the wavelength region of 123–164 nm by two separate 1.0 μm lasers, i.e., using 100 Hz, 10 ns, 2–20 kHz, 60–100 ns full-width-at-half-maximum pulses. A maximum radiation conversion efficiency of ≈ 3%/2πsr is measured over a wavelength region from ≈ 125 to 160 nm. A developed collisional-radiative solver and radiation-hydrodynamics simulations in comparison to the spectra detected by the Seya–Namioka-type monochromator reveal the strong broadband experimental radiations which mainly originate from bound–bound transitions of low-ionized charges superimposed on a strong continuum from a dense plasma with an electron temperature of less than 10 eV.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Huang ◽  
Chung-Wei Lee ◽  
Hon-Man Liu

AbstractMoyamoya disease (MMD) is a chronic, steno-occlusive cerebrovascular disorder of unknown etiology. Surgical treatment is the only known effective method to restore blood flow to affected areas of the brain. However, there are lack of generally accepted noninvasive tools for therapeutic outcome monitoring. As dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the standard MR perfusion imaging technique in the clinical setting, we investigated a dataset of nineteen pediatric MMD patients with one preoperational and multiple periodic DSC MRI examinations for four to thirty-eight months after indirect revascularization. A rigid gamma variate model was used to derive two nondeconvolution-based perfusion parameters: time to peak (TTP) and full width at half maximum (FWHM) for monitoring transitional bolus delay and dispersion changes respectively. TTP and FWHM values were normalized to the cerebellum. Here, we report that 74% (14/19) of patients improve in both TTP and FWHM measurements, and whereof 57% (8/14) improve more noticeably on FWHM. TTP is in good agreement with Tmax in estimating bolus delay. Our study data also suggest bolus dispersion estimated by FWHM is an additional, informative indicator in pediatric MMD monitoring.


2016 ◽  
Vol 09 (02) ◽  
pp. 1650023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Peng ◽  
Jianying Jiang ◽  
Guo Chen ◽  
Lin Shu ◽  
Jie Feng ◽  
...  

Highly c-axis oriented aluminum nitrade (AlN) films were successfully deposited on flexible Hastelloy tapes by middle-frequency magnetron sputtering. The microstructure and piezoelectric properties of the AlN films were investigated. The results show that the AlN films deposited directly on the bare Hastelloy substrate have rough surface with root mean square (RMS) roughness of 32.43[Formula: see text]nm and its full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the AlN (0002) peak is [Formula: see text]. However, the AlN films deposited on the Hastelloy substrate with Y2O3 buffer layer show smooth surface with RMS roughness of 5.46[Formula: see text]nm and its FWHM of the AlN (0002) peak is only [Formula: see text]. The piezoelectric coefficient d[Formula: see text] of the AlN films deposited on the Y2O3/Hastelloy substrate is larger than three times that of the AlN films deposited on the bare Hastelloy substrate. The prepared highly c-axis oriented AlN films can be used to develop high-temperature flexible SAW sensors.


1962 ◽  
Vol 40 (10) ◽  
pp. 1480-1489 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. Bichard ◽  
J. C. Giles

The optical absorption spectra of arsenic and phosphorus donor impurities in silicon have been studied under conditions of improved resolution. Absorption lines due to transitions from the impurity ground state to the excited states 2p0, 2p±, 3p0, 3p±, 4p0, 4 p±, and 5p0, and 5p± have been observed at 4.2° K. The relative intensities of some of these absorption lines are compared with existing experimental and theoretical estimates. The contribution of instrumental broadening to the observed line widths is assessed and natural line widths are estimated. The estimates indicate values for the natural line widths which are much less than those previously reported. For phosphorus impurity, the natural line widths are estimated to be less than 0.08 × 10−3 electron volts full width at half-maximum. The possibility of concentration broadening is discussed in connection with the arsenic data.


2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 675-686 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z.-L. Pan ◽  
J.-H. Yang ◽  
X.-B. Cheng

AbstractAn anti-resonance pulse forming network (PFN) has been designed, analyzed, and tested for its application in generating quasi-square pulses. According to the circuit simulations, a compact generator based on two/three-section network was constructed. Two-section network is applied in the generator due to its compact structure, while three-section network is employed for generating pulses with higher quality. When two-section network is applied in the generator, the full-width at half-maximum of the load pulse is 400 ns, at the same time, its rise time, flat top and fall time are 90, 180 and 217 ns, respectively. When the three-section network is applied with the same pulse width of the load pulse, the rise time of the output decreases to 60 ns, while the flat top increases to 240 ns and the fall time reduces to 109 ns. Meanwhile, this kind of network could be used to shape the output pulses of generators whose equivalent circuit is LC series discharge network, such as MARX generator, into quasi-square pulses. And the preliminary experiment demonstrates that anti-resonance network could work well on four-stage Marx generators. A sine pulse generated by the four-stage Marx generator is shaped into a quasi-square pulse with voltage of 11.8 kV and pulse width about 110 ns based on two-section anti-resonance network.


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