Pulsed Infrared Laser System to Study Metal Ion Solvation

摘要

A new Nd:YAG laser was purchased using AFOSR-DURIP funds and this laser was incorporated into a new infrared laser spectroscopy system based on emerging OPO/OPA technology. This laser is now employed in the study of the IR spectroscopy of size-selected metal ion complexes. Initial results have been obtained for Mg(+) and Fe(+) ions in complexes with CO2 and in mixed CO2/Ar complexes. The initial results are quite promising, and they suggest that this IR spectroscopy methodology will become a general way to determine the structures of clusters and to investigate their growth dynamics.