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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Feb 9, 1981
The design and operating conditions of an apparatus to study photodissociation of ions is describ... more The design and operating conditions of an apparatus to study photodissociation of ions is described. Ions in a large, double-focusing, mass spectrometer are irradiated with photons from an argon-ion laser. A path length of 706 mm for interaction between the ion and laser beams is obtained by passing the radiation through the ion source and then along the same path as that followed by the ions in the first field-free region of the mass spectrometer. By scanning the voltage of the electric sector, different fragment ions resulting from photodissociation are transmitted in turn to an electron multiplier. They are distinguished from ions resulting from unimolecular dissociation by mechanically chopping the laser beam and using the technique of phase-sensitive detection. The photodissociations of the molecular, positive ions of the three isomers of nitrotoluene have been investigated. It is found that, after excitation of the ions with 2.541 eV photons, the resulting fragmentation pathways are different from those for the corresponding unimolecular dissociations.
Applied Surface Science, Apr 1, 1996
Surface second harmonic generation (SHG) has been utilized to obtain information such as orientat... more Surface second harmonic generation (SHG) has been utilized to obtain information such as orientation, concentration distribution and desorption of C ,, indandione-I ,3 pyridinium betaine (IPB) thin films prepared by the Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) technique on fused silica. Data for C ,, IPB adsorbate distribution after irradiation by several pulses of 1064 nm laser at 8 X IO' W/cm' are described using a laser induced thermal desorption model. The results indicate that SHG is a useful tool for the determination of the concentration profile of adsorbates on surfaces with a submonolayer level sensitivity.
International Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Ion Physics, Aug 1, 1981
ABSTRACT Photodissociation of doubly-charged ion has been induced by radiation from an argonion l... more ABSTRACT Photodissociation of doubly-charged ion has been induced by radiation from an argonion laser and investigated using a sensitive double-focusing mass spectrometer of reversed geometry. Of the molecular ions studied, only those of benzene and benzonitrile were found to photodissociate. The kinetic energy release distribution f(T) for both ions was found to be independent of photoexcitation energy in the range 2.41–3.47 eV and with the same respective values of f(T) as for unimolecular dissociation. These results confirm that dissociation of doubly-charged ions is a process involving a predissociation mechanism with the major part of T being due to Coulombic repulsion of the charges on the fragment ions. However, the degree of dishing, which depends on several instrumental factors as well as on the translational energy spread of the fragment ions, was more marked in the case of photodissociation than for unimolecular dissociation. This is probably due to the good collimation of the laser beam and the fact that photodissociation occurs only for ions photoexcited in the volume of this beam. Thus, there is an effective pre-collimation of the photoexcited ions.
International Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Ion Physics, May 1, 1981
An experiment is described in which the kinetic energy released upon photodkssociation of organic... more An experiment is described in which the kinetic energy released upon photodkssociation of organic ions in a modified, reverse-geometry mass spectrometer is measured. Linear dependence of the kinetic energy releasecl on photon energy is observed for most of the ions studied, as predicted by statistical theories. The results indicate that only a fraction of the available degrees of freedom are involved. Non-linear dependence is observed for some of the ions studied and the significance of this is discussed. The kinetic energy release data For isomeric structures exhibit variation in their dependence upon photon energy, and it is suggested that the technique can be used for structural characterisation.
International Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Ion Physics, Dec 1, 1981
ABSTRACT The positive molecular ions of various alkyl benzenes have been photoexcited and the ave... more ABSTRACT The positive molecular ions of various alkyl benzenes have been photoexcited and the average translational energy, <ϵt released on dissociation determined from the ioti-kinetic-energy peak shapes. For the ten species studied, it was found that <ϵt is linearly dependent on the photoexcitation energy ϵp. Differing dissociation reactions from the same ionic species show differing gradients in the <ϵt versus ϵp graphs. Also, in general it was found that the larger the value of <ϵt at a given ϵp, the larger the gradient. The intercepts of he straight lines through the experimental data with the ϵp axis are discussed in relation to the critical energies for the reactions. The data for two of the ions have also been used to evaluate the distributions of translational energies released. Various statistical theories have been examined and used to calculate <ϵt as a function of ϵp. On comparison with the experimental data it was found that each theory predicts lower values of <ϵt⪢ at given values of ϵp, and that the gradients of the calculated <ϵt⪢ versus ϵp graphs are smaller than those obtained from the experimental data.
OMS, Organic mass spectrometry, 1981
Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions, 1992
The effect of molecular reorientation and energy migration on the steady-state and time-resolved ... more The effect of molecular reorientation and energy migration on the steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence anisotropies is investigated. The energy migration takes place between isotropically oriented donors in a two-dimensional disordered system. The donor molecules are 2 x 1 1-tetra-tert-butylperylene (TBPe) which are solubilii in the hydrophobic part of unilamellar vesicles. The vesicles are prepared with 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC) in a glycerol-water solution. At low number density of TBPe the fluorescence anisotropies are solely due to the reorientation of TBPe. The rotational motion of TBPe can be described as that of an oblate ellipsoid in a solvent. At high number densities of TBPe an additional depolarization, due to electronic energy migration, is observed. The fluorescence relaxation is single exponential at all temperatures (240 and 320 K) and concentrations studied. The order parameter of TBPe in the DOPC could be determined at temperatures above 260 K and was found to be small and constant. The time-resolved fluorescence anisotropies measured, at high and low number densities of TBPe, were analyzed globally. The analytical model used is based on the two-particle (tp) approximation of energy migration in a two-dimensional system. It was shown that the effect of vesicle curvature is negligible. The model contains only one unknown parameter, namely, a factor K which is modulated by molecular reorientations. In the so-called "dynamic" and "static" limits, Le., for very fast or slow rotational rates, the tp model predicts the values of Kdyn = 0.874 and K,,, = 0.740, respectively. From experiments we find that the values of K agree reasonably with K,,,, at temperatures between 260 and 320 K, while it surprisingly approaches the value of Kdp at lower temperatures. The steady-state anisotropy was calculated by using the tp model. A good agreement with the experimental anisotropy was obtained for K = K,,, at temperatures above 260 K. The increase of K observed at lower temperatures coincides with the phase transition of DOPC in the range 240-260 K. Thereby, TBPe molecules probably reorient and/or become spatially or orientationally correlated.
International Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Ion Physics, Dec 1, 1981
ABSTRACT A simple form of the quasi-equilibrium theory (QET) is applied in the calculation of pho... more ABSTRACT A simple form of the quasi-equilibrium theory (QET) is applied in the calculation of photodissociation fragment-ion currents for competing reactions of the positive molecular ion of n-butylbenzene. Previous experimental results have shown that dissociation of the molecular ion gives mainly fragment ions of masses 91 u and 92 u, the relative abundances being governed by the photoexcitation energy. Optimisation in the calculations of the frequency factor υ0 for the formation of 92+ and of the effective number of oscillators s leads to calculated values of the relative abundances of the photofragment ions which agree with the values determined experimentally. It is shown that only small changes in υ0 and s from their optimum values are needed to take the calculated relative abundances out of agreement with the experimental values. The outcome of the analysis is to give expressions for the rate constants as a function of the internal energy of the parent n-butylbenzene ion for the formation of the fragment ions 91+ and 92+.
Inorganic Chemistry, Jun 5, 2004
Optics Communications, Feb 1, 1978
The frequency of oscillation of an iodine photodissodation laser has been measured for argon buff... more The frequency of oscillation of an iodine photodissodation laser has been measured for argon buffer gas pressures up to 7 atmospheres. The variation in frequency of the 1.315 ~tm transition can be explained solely by the overlapping of the hyperfine split transitions at high pressures, and no evidence is obtained for a collisional frequency shift. A pressure broadening parameter of 4.5 MHz/torr for argon-iodine collisions is deduced from the observed frequency shifts.
ChemInform, Nov 20, 1990
The time‐dependence of the photocorrosion of colloidal ZnS is studied by time‐resolved and static... more The time‐dependence of the photocorrosion of colloidal ZnS is studied by time‐resolved and static fluorescence spectroscopy, and ESCA.
Ever since the first publication of intracavity optogalvanic spectroscopy (ICOGS) in 2008, this n... more Ever since the first publication of intracavity optogalvanic spectroscopy (ICOGS) in 2008, this novel technique for measuring the 14 C/ 12 C ratio in carbon dioxide has rendered considerable attention. As a result, there are currently at least five different research groups pursuing research on ICOGS. With a claimed limit of detection of 10-15 (14 C/ 12 C), i.e., in the same order as accelerator mass spectroscopy, achieved with a relatively inexpensive and uncomplicated table-top system, ICOGS has major scientific and commercial implications. However, during the past five years, no research group has been able to reproduce these results, or present additional proof for ICOGS's capability of unambiguous 14 C detection, including the authors of the original publication. Starting in 2010, our group has set up a state-of-the-art ICOGS laboratory, and has investigated the basic methodology of ICOGS in general and tried to
There has been intense interest and debate concerning the electron transfer rates within dye-sens... more There has been intense interest and debate concerning the electron transfer rates within dye-sensitized nanostructured n-type semiconductors (such as TiO2). The motivation for this research has been the development of solar cells in which the first step is electron injection from the dye's excited state into the semiconductor conduction band. Our system, however, is designed such that hole injection from an excited mol. into a p-type nanostructured semiconductor can occur. An IPCE (incident photon-to-current conversion efficiency) of 3% has already been reported for a nanostructured NiO film dye-sensitized with erythrosin B (He, J.; Lindstrom, H.; Hagfeldt, A.; Lindquist, S.-E. J. Phys. Chem. B. 1999, 103, 8940). It is not possible for electron injection to occur from the excited dye into NiO because the conduction band of NiO is significantly higher in energy than electrons in the dye's excited states. However, the energies of both the dye's HOMO and the redox electroly...
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Chemical Physics Letters, 2004
The title has been cor., i.e. "charge carriers relaxation" was changed to "charge ... more The title has been cor., i.e. "charge carriers relaxation" was changed to "charge carriers".
The Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1991
Nonradiative energy transfer (NET) was studied in micellar systems of Kraton G-1701 (a diblock co... more Nonradiative energy transfer (NET) was studied in micellar systems of Kraton G-1701 (a diblock copolymer containing polystyrene and hydrogenated polyisoprene blocks) with a polystyrene block tagged with a fluorescence donor (carbazole) and a fluorescence acceptor (anthracene). On addition of selective precipitants for either block of the copolymer, the donor-acceptor pair was located either in the compact micellar core, or in the diffuse solvated shell. It is shown by steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence measurements that the NET is highly efficient in the micellar core and much less efficient in the shell. By measurement of the time-dependent increase in anthracene emission at 413 nm (due to energy transfer, when carbazole is excited at 295 nm) and the concomitant decrease of carbazole emission at 364 nm after mixing two solutions of micelles, labeled by carbazole and anthracene, respectively, the rates of unimer = i micelle exchange under equilibrium conditions were obtained in several selective precipitants. By comparison with the existing data on the unimer ?T micelle mass exchange rate when relatively large perturbations of the equilibrium conditions are induced, the mass exchange rates under the nonperturbed equilibrium conditions are slower by several orders of magnitude, indicating that a limited segment mobility in micellar cores leads to a slow micelle dissociation.
Fanni Stefano and Weldon Frances and Hammarstrom Leif and Mukhtar Emad and Browne Wesley R and Keyes Tia E and Vos Johannes G Photochemically Induced Isomerisation in Ruthenium Polypyridyl Complexes European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2001 Pp 529 534 Issn 1434 1948, Jan 5, 2001
Journal of Fluorescence, 2002
An accurate instrumental response function is needed to conclusively deconvolute fluorescence dat... more An accurate instrumental response function is needed to conclusively deconvolute fluorescence data based on time-correlated single-photon counting (TCSPC) and multiphoton excitation. Routinely the response function is measured as Rayleigh scattering (RS) from a colloidal solution, even if the excitation is a multiphoton event. Present work demonstrates that a response function obtained as hyper Rayleigh scattering (HRS) provides a better choice
The Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1990
(44) McQuarrie, DA Starisrical Mechanics; Harper &amp; Row: New York, 1976. ... Importanc... more (44) McQuarrie, DA Starisrical Mechanics; Harper &amp; Row: New York, 1976. ... Importance of Surface Reactions in the Photochemistry of ZnS Colloids ... Dave E. Dunstan,*qt Anders Hagfeldt,t*t Mats Almgren,+ Hans 0. G. Siegbahn,* and Emad Mukhtart Departments of ...
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Feb 9, 1981
The design and operating conditions of an apparatus to study photodissociation of ions is describ... more The design and operating conditions of an apparatus to study photodissociation of ions is described. Ions in a large, double-focusing, mass spectrometer are irradiated with photons from an argon-ion laser. A path length of 706 mm for interaction between the ion and laser beams is obtained by passing the radiation through the ion source and then along the same path as that followed by the ions in the first field-free region of the mass spectrometer. By scanning the voltage of the electric sector, different fragment ions resulting from photodissociation are transmitted in turn to an electron multiplier. They are distinguished from ions resulting from unimolecular dissociation by mechanically chopping the laser beam and using the technique of phase-sensitive detection. The photodissociations of the molecular, positive ions of the three isomers of nitrotoluene have been investigated. It is found that, after excitation of the ions with 2.541 eV photons, the resulting fragmentation pathways are different from those for the corresponding unimolecular dissociations.
Applied Surface Science, Apr 1, 1996
Surface second harmonic generation (SHG) has been utilized to obtain information such as orientat... more Surface second harmonic generation (SHG) has been utilized to obtain information such as orientation, concentration distribution and desorption of C ,, indandione-I ,3 pyridinium betaine (IPB) thin films prepared by the Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) technique on fused silica. Data for C ,, IPB adsorbate distribution after irradiation by several pulses of 1064 nm laser at 8 X IO' W/cm' are described using a laser induced thermal desorption model. The results indicate that SHG is a useful tool for the determination of the concentration profile of adsorbates on surfaces with a submonolayer level sensitivity.
International Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Ion Physics, Aug 1, 1981
ABSTRACT Photodissociation of doubly-charged ion has been induced by radiation from an argonion l... more ABSTRACT Photodissociation of doubly-charged ion has been induced by radiation from an argonion laser and investigated using a sensitive double-focusing mass spectrometer of reversed geometry. Of the molecular ions studied, only those of benzene and benzonitrile were found to photodissociate. The kinetic energy release distribution f(T) for both ions was found to be independent of photoexcitation energy in the range 2.41–3.47 eV and with the same respective values of f(T) as for unimolecular dissociation. These results confirm that dissociation of doubly-charged ions is a process involving a predissociation mechanism with the major part of T being due to Coulombic repulsion of the charges on the fragment ions. However, the degree of dishing, which depends on several instrumental factors as well as on the translational energy spread of the fragment ions, was more marked in the case of photodissociation than for unimolecular dissociation. This is probably due to the good collimation of the laser beam and the fact that photodissociation occurs only for ions photoexcited in the volume of this beam. Thus, there is an effective pre-collimation of the photoexcited ions.
International Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Ion Physics, May 1, 1981
An experiment is described in which the kinetic energy released upon photodkssociation of organic... more An experiment is described in which the kinetic energy released upon photodkssociation of organic ions in a modified, reverse-geometry mass spectrometer is measured. Linear dependence of the kinetic energy releasecl on photon energy is observed for most of the ions studied, as predicted by statistical theories. The results indicate that only a fraction of the available degrees of freedom are involved. Non-linear dependence is observed for some of the ions studied and the significance of this is discussed. The kinetic energy release data For isomeric structures exhibit variation in their dependence upon photon energy, and it is suggested that the technique can be used for structural characterisation.
International Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Ion Physics, Dec 1, 1981
ABSTRACT The positive molecular ions of various alkyl benzenes have been photoexcited and the ave... more ABSTRACT The positive molecular ions of various alkyl benzenes have been photoexcited and the average translational energy, <ϵt released on dissociation determined from the ioti-kinetic-energy peak shapes. For the ten species studied, it was found that <ϵt is linearly dependent on the photoexcitation energy ϵp. Differing dissociation reactions from the same ionic species show differing gradients in the <ϵt versus ϵp graphs. Also, in general it was found that the larger the value of <ϵt at a given ϵp, the larger the gradient. The intercepts of he straight lines through the experimental data with the ϵp axis are discussed in relation to the critical energies for the reactions. The data for two of the ions have also been used to evaluate the distributions of translational energies released. Various statistical theories have been examined and used to calculate <ϵt as a function of ϵp. On comparison with the experimental data it was found that each theory predicts lower values of <ϵt⪢ at given values of ϵp, and that the gradients of the calculated <ϵt⪢ versus ϵp graphs are smaller than those obtained from the experimental data.
OMS, Organic mass spectrometry, 1981
Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions, 1992
The effect of molecular reorientation and energy migration on the steady-state and time-resolved ... more The effect of molecular reorientation and energy migration on the steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence anisotropies is investigated. The energy migration takes place between isotropically oriented donors in a two-dimensional disordered system. The donor molecules are 2 x 1 1-tetra-tert-butylperylene (TBPe) which are solubilii in the hydrophobic part of unilamellar vesicles. The vesicles are prepared with 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC) in a glycerol-water solution. At low number density of TBPe the fluorescence anisotropies are solely due to the reorientation of TBPe. The rotational motion of TBPe can be described as that of an oblate ellipsoid in a solvent. At high number densities of TBPe an additional depolarization, due to electronic energy migration, is observed. The fluorescence relaxation is single exponential at all temperatures (240 and 320 K) and concentrations studied. The order parameter of TBPe in the DOPC could be determined at temperatures above 260 K and was found to be small and constant. The time-resolved fluorescence anisotropies measured, at high and low number densities of TBPe, were analyzed globally. The analytical model used is based on the two-particle (tp) approximation of energy migration in a two-dimensional system. It was shown that the effect of vesicle curvature is negligible. The model contains only one unknown parameter, namely, a factor K which is modulated by molecular reorientations. In the so-called "dynamic" and "static" limits, Le., for very fast or slow rotational rates, the tp model predicts the values of Kdyn = 0.874 and K,,, = 0.740, respectively. From experiments we find that the values of K agree reasonably with K,,,, at temperatures between 260 and 320 K, while it surprisingly approaches the value of Kdp at lower temperatures. The steady-state anisotropy was calculated by using the tp model. A good agreement with the experimental anisotropy was obtained for K = K,,, at temperatures above 260 K. The increase of K observed at lower temperatures coincides with the phase transition of DOPC in the range 240-260 K. Thereby, TBPe molecules probably reorient and/or become spatially or orientationally correlated.
International Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Ion Physics, Dec 1, 1981
ABSTRACT A simple form of the quasi-equilibrium theory (QET) is applied in the calculation of pho... more ABSTRACT A simple form of the quasi-equilibrium theory (QET) is applied in the calculation of photodissociation fragment-ion currents for competing reactions of the positive molecular ion of n-butylbenzene. Previous experimental results have shown that dissociation of the molecular ion gives mainly fragment ions of masses 91 u and 92 u, the relative abundances being governed by the photoexcitation energy. Optimisation in the calculations of the frequency factor υ0 for the formation of 92+ and of the effective number of oscillators s leads to calculated values of the relative abundances of the photofragment ions which agree with the values determined experimentally. It is shown that only small changes in υ0 and s from their optimum values are needed to take the calculated relative abundances out of agreement with the experimental values. The outcome of the analysis is to give expressions for the rate constants as a function of the internal energy of the parent n-butylbenzene ion for the formation of the fragment ions 91+ and 92+.
Inorganic Chemistry, Jun 5, 2004
Optics Communications, Feb 1, 1978
The frequency of oscillation of an iodine photodissodation laser has been measured for argon buff... more The frequency of oscillation of an iodine photodissodation laser has been measured for argon buffer gas pressures up to 7 atmospheres. The variation in frequency of the 1.315 ~tm transition can be explained solely by the overlapping of the hyperfine split transitions at high pressures, and no evidence is obtained for a collisional frequency shift. A pressure broadening parameter of 4.5 MHz/torr for argon-iodine collisions is deduced from the observed frequency shifts.
ChemInform, Nov 20, 1990
The time‐dependence of the photocorrosion of colloidal ZnS is studied by time‐resolved and static... more The time‐dependence of the photocorrosion of colloidal ZnS is studied by time‐resolved and static fluorescence spectroscopy, and ESCA.
Ever since the first publication of intracavity optogalvanic spectroscopy (ICOGS) in 2008, this n... more Ever since the first publication of intracavity optogalvanic spectroscopy (ICOGS) in 2008, this novel technique for measuring the 14 C/ 12 C ratio in carbon dioxide has rendered considerable attention. As a result, there are currently at least five different research groups pursuing research on ICOGS. With a claimed limit of detection of 10-15 (14 C/ 12 C), i.e., in the same order as accelerator mass spectroscopy, achieved with a relatively inexpensive and uncomplicated table-top system, ICOGS has major scientific and commercial implications. However, during the past five years, no research group has been able to reproduce these results, or present additional proof for ICOGS's capability of unambiguous 14 C detection, including the authors of the original publication. Starting in 2010, our group has set up a state-of-the-art ICOGS laboratory, and has investigated the basic methodology of ICOGS in general and tried to
There has been intense interest and debate concerning the electron transfer rates within dye-sens... more There has been intense interest and debate concerning the electron transfer rates within dye-sensitized nanostructured n-type semiconductors (such as TiO2). The motivation for this research has been the development of solar cells in which the first step is electron injection from the dye's excited state into the semiconductor conduction band. Our system, however, is designed such that hole injection from an excited mol. into a p-type nanostructured semiconductor can occur. An IPCE (incident photon-to-current conversion efficiency) of 3% has already been reported for a nanostructured NiO film dye-sensitized with erythrosin B (He, J.; Lindstrom, H.; Hagfeldt, A.; Lindquist, S.-E. J. Phys. Chem. B. 1999, 103, 8940). It is not possible for electron injection to occur from the excited dye into NiO because the conduction band of NiO is significantly higher in energy than electrons in the dye's excited states. However, the energies of both the dye's HOMO and the redox electroly...
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Chemical Physics Letters, 2004
The title has been cor., i.e. "charge carriers relaxation" was changed to "charge ... more The title has been cor., i.e. "charge carriers relaxation" was changed to "charge carriers".
The Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1991
Nonradiative energy transfer (NET) was studied in micellar systems of Kraton G-1701 (a diblock co... more Nonradiative energy transfer (NET) was studied in micellar systems of Kraton G-1701 (a diblock copolymer containing polystyrene and hydrogenated polyisoprene blocks) with a polystyrene block tagged with a fluorescence donor (carbazole) and a fluorescence acceptor (anthracene). On addition of selective precipitants for either block of the copolymer, the donor-acceptor pair was located either in the compact micellar core, or in the diffuse solvated shell. It is shown by steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence measurements that the NET is highly efficient in the micellar core and much less efficient in the shell. By measurement of the time-dependent increase in anthracene emission at 413 nm (due to energy transfer, when carbazole is excited at 295 nm) and the concomitant decrease of carbazole emission at 364 nm after mixing two solutions of micelles, labeled by carbazole and anthracene, respectively, the rates of unimer = i micelle exchange under equilibrium conditions were obtained in several selective precipitants. By comparison with the existing data on the unimer ?T micelle mass exchange rate when relatively large perturbations of the equilibrium conditions are induced, the mass exchange rates under the nonperturbed equilibrium conditions are slower by several orders of magnitude, indicating that a limited segment mobility in micellar cores leads to a slow micelle dissociation.
Fanni Stefano and Weldon Frances and Hammarstrom Leif and Mukhtar Emad and Browne Wesley R and Keyes Tia E and Vos Johannes G Photochemically Induced Isomerisation in Ruthenium Polypyridyl Complexes European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2001 Pp 529 534 Issn 1434 1948, Jan 5, 2001
Journal of Fluorescence, 2002
An accurate instrumental response function is needed to conclusively deconvolute fluorescence dat... more An accurate instrumental response function is needed to conclusively deconvolute fluorescence data based on time-correlated single-photon counting (TCSPC) and multiphoton excitation. Routinely the response function is measured as Rayleigh scattering (RS) from a colloidal solution, even if the excitation is a multiphoton event. Present work demonstrates that a response function obtained as hyper Rayleigh scattering (HRS) provides a better choice
The Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1990
(44) McQuarrie, DA Starisrical Mechanics; Harper &amp; Row: New York, 1976. ... Importanc... more (44) McQuarrie, DA Starisrical Mechanics; Harper &amp; Row: New York, 1976. ... Importance of Surface Reactions in the Photochemistry of ZnS Colloids ... Dave E. Dunstan,*qt Anders Hagfeldt,t*t Mats Almgren,+ Hans 0. G. Siegbahn,* and Emad Mukhtart Departments of ...