Photoexcitation of Carbon Fullerenes

Abstract

Photoexcitation processes in cold and thermal C60 and C70 molecules in the gas phase were studied. We set up a supersonic beam source of cold fullerenes and use measure the beam energies for helium and krypton as driving gas. We studied thermionic emission from fullerenes following multiphoton pumping using laser pulses of 20 ns, 1 ps, and 150 fs duration. The wavelength dependence for REMPI was investigated from 315 to 335 nm. Multiphoton fragmentation processes and ultrafast dynamics of fullerenes were investigated.. .. Thermal and supersonic fullerene beams, Multiphoton excitation, ionization and fragmentation of fullerenes, Ultrafast dynamics of C60.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA260739

Entities

People

  • D. C. Lorents
  • H. Helm
  • Y. K. Bae

Organizations

  • SRI International

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Dye Lasers
  • Dynamics
  • Emission
  • Excitation
  • Fragmentation
  • Fullerenes
  • Ionization
  • Laser Pulses
  • Lasers
  • Light Sources
  • Materials
  • Molecular Physics
  • Molecules
  • Photoexcitation
  • Physics
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Spectra

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Solar Photovoltaics and Thermoelectric Devices.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flight