Energy Transfer Reactions of Excited Atoms and Molecules.

Abstract

Five main areas have been investigated: (1) observations of the three metastable states of O2 with excitation energies between 4 and 5 eV have been made in afterglow systems, (2) a new energy transfer process has been discovered in the NO molecule; (3) using the H2 laser, direct observations were made of o(1D) radiation at 6300 A from O2 photodissociation; (4) the product channels for the quenching of O(1S) by O(3P) have been investigated; and (5) quenching of O(1S) by the species in an oxygen-helium afterglow gives convincing evidence that the most important quenching molecule is O2, with a rate coefficient of approximately gas kinetic collision frequency.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 28, 1980
Accession Number
ADA089203

Entities

People

  • Tom G. Slanger

Organizations

  • SRI International

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Afterglows
  • Atoms
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Chemistry
  • Coefficients
  • Dissociation
  • Emission Spectra
  • Emission Spectroscopy
  • Energy
  • Energy Transfer
  • Excitation
  • Ground State
  • Metastable State
  • Molecules
  • Radiation
  • Spectra
  • Spectroscopy

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Lasers