Quantitative vibrational spectroscopy on liquid mixtures is best performed using volume-based concentration units.

The interaction between localized and extended vibrational modes in solids is of central importance in understanding how local vibrational modes decay into phonons. Interstitial oxygen (O(i)) in silicon is a model system for studying such interactions. Using hydrostatic pressure, we have brought the antisymmetric stretch mode of (18)O(i) in silicon into resonance with the second harmonic of the...

We use a combination of experimental THz time-domain spectroscopy and ab-initio density functional perturbative theory to accurately predict the terahertz vibrational spectrum of molecules in the crystalline phase. Our calculations show that distinct vibrational modes found in solid-state materials are best described as phonon modes with strong coupling to the intramolecular degrees of freedom....

Since the introduction of ultra-fast laser techniques for the generation and detection of broadband terahertz pulses, terahertz time-domain spectroscopy has become a versatile tool for vibrational spectroscopy of molecular systems in the far-infrared. Due to their highly collective and delocalized character vibrational modes in this part of the spectrum are highly sensitive to molecular structu...

Ultrathin SiO2 films on Mo 112 were synthesized using different preparation procedures and characterized with ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy UPS , metastable impact electron spectroscopy MIES , and polarization modulation infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy PM-IRAS . By correlating the vibrational and electronic data, an assignment of the prominent spectral features are made. Th...

We introduce a point of view for treating the dynamical tunneling splitting of symmetric local mode vibrational states in ABA molecules (A = H typically) which is the one we have employed in treating the vibrational spectroscopy of CH overtones in molecules such as (CXs),YCCH. Namely, the vibrational coupling corresponding to the dynamical tunneling in semiclassical mechanics via many intermedi...

The vibrational excitation of molecules adsorbed on a surface is typically probed by spectroscopic techniques such as infrared or Raman spectroscopy. In the present article we demonstrate an alternative method to determine vibrational lifetimes of adsorbate molecules using quasi-elastic helium atom scattering (QHAS). As a probe of diffusive motion of molecules on surfaces QHAS is well establish...

Ni ferrite crystalline material is synthesized using a sol-gel method at two different temperatures. The vibrational and stretching modes, crystalline phase, size distribution and morphology of the products are investigated via Raman back-scattering and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, XRD and FESEM, respectively. Vibrational modes of spinel ferrite are observed at Raman and FTIR...

Depending on each nitrogen atom of adenine molecule to which a silver atom of a metallic tip approaches, tip-enhanced near-field Raman spectroscopy may show a potential to achieve atomic site-selective detection sensitivity. Molecular vibrational calculations show that silver atoms and adenine molecule create several isomers generating specific vibrational modes of each isomer that are shifted ...