Line broadening, inhomogeneous temperature-independent

The results for various alcohol solutions are compiled in Table 2. The data refer to room temperature except for methanol in C5CI6, which was measured at 333 K. A few spectroscopic parameters are shown in the first four lines. There is evidence for inhomogeneous broadening of the monomeric OH-stretching vibration for the various investigated alcohols with a width of the observed spectral holes as small as 50% of the conventional absorption band (DMEP). The anharmonic shift of the OH mode is indicated in the table to amount to 170 cm-1, independent of solute or solvent within experimental accuracy. The large anharmonicity of the monomeric alcohols is noteworthy. The population lifetime Ti of the mode... 

Vibrational Raman band intensities and frequencies are also dependent on temperature, applied pressure, and the intrinsic microstructure of the material. These second-order parameters may be extracted from measured spectra. Both X-ray diffraction lines and Raman bands from polycrystalline materials show increased broadening as the microcrystallite grain sizes decrease. In fact, for the hexagonal phase of BN, bandwidths vary linearly with the reciprocal grain size (13). Inherent stress in thin films is manifested in vibrational line shifts. Based on pressure-dependent measurements of vibrational frequencies in bulk solids, inherent stress and stress inhomogeneity can be determined in thin films. Since localized stress can influence the optical and electronic properties of a thin film, it appears to be an important parameter in film characterization studies. Vibrational features also exhibit temperature-dependent frequency shifts. Therefore, an independent measurement of temperature is sometimes necessary to deconvolute these effects. Reference to Figure 1 shows that the molecular temperature of a material may be determined from the Stokes/anti-Stokes... 

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