QUANTITATIVE STUDIES BY OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY OF ENERGY EXCHANGE IN SIMPLE GASES AND SOLIDS.

Abstract

Optical spectroscopy has been used to study a number of collision processes. Quantitative spectroscopic measurements of both wavelength and intensity made it possible to determine some new mechanisms of energy exchange, and, in some cases, to obtain some new collision cross sections. In the gas phase, rate coefficients have been measured for several helium energy transfer collisions, conditions have been established for mechanisms producing excited CN, and collision broadening of metal atoms and of OH in flames has been studied. In the condensed phase, scattering of monochromatic radiation from liquids and simple solids produced information about energy exchange with phonons, molecular rotation, and vibration. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0823877

Entities

People

  • H. P. Broida

Organizations

  • University of California, Santa Barbara

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Coefficients
  • Collision Broadening
  • Collisions
  • Energy
  • Energy Transfer
  • Intensity
  • Measurement
  • Radiation
  • Rotation
  • Scattering
  • Spectroscopy
  • Vibration

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Quantum Chemistry