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Fig. 23. Experimental room temperature Raman spectrum from a sample consisting primarily of bundles or ropes of single-wall nanotubes with diameters near that of the (10,10) nanotube. The excitation laser wavelength is 514.5 nm. The inset shows the lineshape analysis of the vibrational modes near 1580 cm . SWNT refers to singlewall carbon nanotubes [195].

The Raman spectrum of an oxide sample after adsorption may be considered to consist of the spectrum of the adsorbed species superimposed on the spectrum due to the oxide adsorbent. In general, the Raman spectra of oxide adsorbents are sufficiently weak or sufficiently simple that they allow the detection of Raman lines due to the adsorbed species. This is one major advantage of Raman scattering over infrared absorption spectroscopy. The infrared spectra of most oxide adsorbents show strong absorptions which may obscure those arising from the adsorbates (Figs. 13,14). 

Fig. 25. Interference of plasma lines from the Ar+ emiasion in the Raman spectrum of a Cab-O-Sil silica sample.

Figures 8 and 9 shows a part of the bending region at low temperature containing the components of Vg (150-160 cm ) and Vs (190-200 cm ). The Vg vibration, IR active in the free molecule, has weak components in the Raman spectrum. According to theoretically calculated Raman intensities, which almost perfectly fit the experimental spectrum, the big component has a very low scattering cross-section [87] and is accidentally degenerate with the b2g component at ca. 188 cm. The IR active components of Vg cause strong absorptions in the IR spectrum even if the crystalline sample used for transmission studies is as thin as 400 pm [107, 109].

Since the vibrational spectra of sulfur allotropes are characteristic for their molecular and crystalline structure, vibrational spectroscopy has become a valuable tool in structural studies besides X-ray diffraction techniques. In particular, Raman spectroscopy on sulfur samples at high pressures is much easier to perform than IR spectroscopical studies due to technical demands (e.g., throughput of the IR beam, spectral range in the far-infrared). On the other hand, application of laser radiation for exciting the Raman spectrum may cause photo-induced structural changes. High-pressure phase transitions and structures of elemental sulfur at high pressures were already discussed in [1]. 

At least five high-pressure allotropes of sulfur have been observed by Raman spectroscopy up to about 40 GPa the spectra of which differ significantly from those of a-Sg at high pressures photo-induced amorphous sulfur (a-S) [57, 58, 109, 119, 184-186], photo-induced sulfur (p-S) [57, 58, 109, 119, 184, 186-191], rhombohedral Se [58, 109, 137, 184, 186, 188, 191], high-pressure low-temperature sulfur (hplt-S) [137, 184, 192], and polymeric sulfur (S ) [58, 109, 119, 193]. The Raman spectra of two of these d-lotropes, a-S and S, were discussed in the preceding section. The Raman spectra of p-S and hplt-S have only been reported for samples at high-pressure conditions. The structure of both allotropes are imknown. The Raman spectrum of Se at STP conditions is discussed below. 

Fig. 31 Evolution of the Raman spectra of a high-pressure and photo-induced sample of Se while decreasing the pressure at ca. 300 K [109]. The spectrum at 3.9 GPa shows the onset of the transformation S6 p-S. The asterisks indicate the Raman signals typical for p-S whereas the peaks of two stretching vibrations of p-S coincide with those of Se at about 458 cm and 471 cm (not indicated by asterisks). The Raman spectrum of the sample recovered at ambient pressure (0 GPa) is evidently a superposition of the spectra of a-Sg and polymeric sulfur, Sj, arrows indicate plasma lines of the Ar ion laser at 515 nm, which have been used for calibration). For Raman spectra under increasing pressure, see Fig. 23 in [1] and references cited therein...

The SO stretching vibration of S7O was observed at 1134 cm in the IR spectrum of a CS2 solution and at 1089/1102/1113 cm in the Raman spectrum of a soHd sample at -90 °C (the three very weak Raman lines probably originate from the intermolecular S—0 interactions). The two strongest Raman lines at 292 and 325 cm have been assigned to the SS stretching vibrations of the particularly weak bonds (see the bond distances in Fig. 2). 

Figure 7 shows a sequence of Raman spectra from sample D with different excitation wavelengths. Figure 7a, b, and c corresponds to 514 nm, 325 nm, and 244 nm, respectively. Compared with the spectrum of 514-nm excitation, the 325-nm excited Raman spectrum exhibits a clear peak at 1332 cm and the remarkable enhancement of the... 

Figure 3.30. (a) UV-vis absorption spectra of the HPAA product (solid line) and the HPDP substrate (dash line) in a H20/MeCN (1 1) mixed solvent, (b) Picosecond time-resolved resonance Raman (ps-TR ) spectra of HPDP obtained with a 267 nm pump and 200 nm prohe wavelengths in a HjO/MeCN (1 1) mixed solvent. Resonance Raman spectrum of an authentic sample of HPAA recorded with 200 nm excitation is displayed at the top. (Reprinted with permission from reference [49]. Copyright (2006) American Chemical Society.)... 

We will confine ourselves to those applications concerned with chemical analysis, although the Raman microprobe also enables the stress and strain imposed in a sample to be examined. Externally applied stress-induced changes in intramolecular distances of the lattice structures are reflected in changes in the Raman spectrum, so that the technique may be used, for example, to study the local stresses and strains in polymer fibre and ceramic fibre composite materials. 

In order to obtain nearly absolute purity of the spectra of these xanthophylls, it was necessary to calculate the difference Raman spectra. Therefore, for zeaxanthin, two spectra of samples, one containing violaxanthin and the other enriched in zeaxanthin, were measured at 514.5 nm excitation. After their normalization using chlorophyll a bands at 1354 or 1389 cm-1, a deepoxidized-minus-epoxidized difference spectrum has for the first time been calculated to produce a pure resonance Raman spectrum of zeaxanthin in vivo (Figure 7.10b). A similar procedure was used for the calculation of the pure spectrum for violaxanthin. The only difference is that the 488.0nm excitation wavelength and epoxidized-minus-deepoxidized order of spectra have been applied in the calculation. The spectra produced using this approach have remarkable similarity to the spectra of xanthophyll cycle carotenoids in pure solvents (Ruban et al., 2001). The v, peaks of violaxanthin and zeaxanthin spectra are 7 cm 1 apart and in correspondence to the maxima of this band for isolated zeaxanthin and violaxanthin, respectively. The v3 band for zeaxanthin is positioned at 1003 cm-1, while the one for violaxanthin is upshifted toward 1006 cm-1. 

Raman scattering is one of the most useful and powerful techniques to characterize carbon nanotube samples. Figure 15.17 shows the Raman spectrum of a single SWNT [127]. The spectrum shows four major bands which are labeled RBM, D, G, and G. ... 

Raman spectroscopy is primarily useful as a diagnostic, inasmuch as the vibrational Raman spectrum is directly related to molecular structure and bonding. The major development since 1965 in spontaneous, c.w. Raman spectroscopy has been the observation and exploitation by chemists of the resonance Raman effect. This advance, pioneered in chemical applications by Long and Loehr (15a) and by Spiro and Strekas (15b), overcomes the inherently feeble nature of normal (nonresonant) Raman scattering and allows observation of Raman spectra of dilute chemical systems. Because the observation of the resonance effect requires selection of a laser wavelength at or near an electronic transition of the sample, developments in resonance Raman spectroscopy have closely paralleled the increasing availability of widely tunable and line-selectable lasers. 

Substitutional B in Si has a triply degenerate local mode that is observed in both IR absorption and Raman spectra. There are two naturally occur-ing isotopes, nB (82.2%) and 10B (18.8%), with distinct vibrational bands near 623 and 646 cm-1, respectively (Newman, 1969). Changes in the Raman spectrum of the B local mode upon passivation by H or D have been studied (Stutzmann, 1987 Stutzmann and Herrero, 1988a,b Herrero and Stutzmann, 1988a). Spectra are shown in Fig. 6 for samples of B doped Si that are unpassivated and passivated by H and D. Upon passivation, the vibrations due to isolated B are reduced in intensity and new features appear at 652 and 680 cm-1 independent of whether the B is complexed with Hor D. 

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