Several new techniques were developed and appUed to investigate various nontrivial aspects of vibrational motion. In particular, a novel strategy for accurate determination of vibrational energy levels in the presence of intramolecular hy­ drogen bonds was proposed. A small subset of convenient internal coordinates was chosen to represent a vibrational mode of interest, while the interdependenc...

Analyzing the nonlinear vibration of beams is one of the important issues in structural engineering. According to this, an impressive analytical method which is called Modified Iteration Perturbation Method (MIPM) is used to obtain the behavior and frequency of a cantilever beam with geometric nonlinear. This new method is combined by the Mickens and Iteration methods. Moreover, this method don...

In this paper, surface and piezoelectric effects on the vibration behavior of nanowires (NWs) are investigated by using a Timoshenko beam model. The electric field equations and the governing equations of motion for the piezoelectric NWs are derived with the consideration of surface effects. By the exact solution of the governing equations, an expression for the natural frequencies of NWs with ...

Vibrational communication is one of the least understood channels of communication. Most studies have focused on the role of substrate-borne signals in insect mating behavior, where a male and a female establish a stereotyped duet that enables partner recognition and localization. While the effective communication range of substrate-borne signals may be up to several meters, it is generally acc...

The relationship between the conducting behavior and the degree of charge fluctuation in the β′′-type BEDT-TTF salts is reviewed from the standpoints of vibrational spectroscopy and crystal structure. A group of β′′-type ET salts demonstrates the best model compounds for achieving the above relationship because the two-dimensional structure is simple and great diversity in conducting behavior i...

Computations are presented to describe and analyze the high levels of infrared laser induced vibrational excitation of a monolayer of absorbed (13)CO on a NaCl(100) surface. Extending the vibrational site-to-site surface hopping technique of Corcelli and Tully, kinetic Monte Carlo computations are used to incorporate single-quantum vibrational pooling and depooling of the (13)CO by phonon excit...

The driving force of the unidirectional thermal expansion in KZnB3O6 has been studied experimentally and theoretically. Our results show that the low-energy vibrational modes of alkali metals play a crucial role in this unusual thermal behavior.

Many of the remarkable physical and chemical properties of liquid water are due to the strong influence hydrogen bonds have on its microscopic dynamics. However, because of the fast timescales involved, there are relatively few experimental techniques capable of directly probing rearrangements of water’s hydrogen bonded network. In this thesis, I investigate ultrafast intermolecular dynamics of...