REMPI measurements Resonance-enhanced multiphoton

For ion TOF measurement a probe laser was used to ionize reaction products in the reaction zone. The (1 + F) resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI) method was adapted for H-atom detection. The necessary vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) radiation near 121.6 nm (for Lyman-a transition) can readily be generated by a frequency-tripling technique in a Kr cell.37 The sensitivity of this (1 +1 ) REMPI detection scheme is extremely high owing to the large absorption cross-section of Lyman-a transition,... 

The vibration spectrum of the first excited state of guanine was measured using laser desorption jet-cooled resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI) spectrometry <1999JA4896>. The millimeter wave spectrum of purine was collected using a free jet spectrometer, and the observed rotational spectrum was assigned to the N(9)-H tautomer <1996CPL189>. 

A technique that has been used in laboratory studies for oxides of nitrogen and shows promise for field measurements is resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI) (Guizard et al., 1989 Lemire et al., 1993 Simeonsson et al., 1994). For example, Akimoto and co-workers (Lee et al., 1997) have reported a REMPI system in which a (1 + 1) two-photon absorption of light at 226 nm by NO results in ionization (vide supra). They report a detection limit of 16 ppt in their laboratory studies. Other oxides of nitrogen such as NOz and HN03 can also photodissociate in the... 

Photolysis of the dimer, reaction (44), proceeds primarily via generation of Cl + ClOO (Cox and Hayrnan, 1988 Molina et al., 1990). For example, Molina et al. (1990) reported the quantum yield for this channel at 308 nm to be unity, with an uncertainty of 30%. Okumura and co-workers (Moore et al., 1999) and Schindler and co-workers (Schmidt et al., 1998) have reported that the quantum yield is less than 1.0. For example, Schmidt et al. (1998) used resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI) with time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometry to follow the production of oxygen and chlorine atoms as well as CIO in vibrational levels up to v" = 5 in the photolysis of the dimer. At a photolysis wavelength of 250 nm, the quantum yield for chlorine atom production was measured to be 0.65 + 0.15, but CIO was not observed. Assuming that all of the excited dimer dissociates, this suggests that the production of CIO in vibrational... 

Other MS-fingerprinting techniques that are in commercial development are based on atmospheric pressure ionisation (API), resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionisation (REMPI) TOE and proton-transfer reaction (PTR). They are rapid, sensitive and specific and allow measurements in real time and may play an increasingly important role in the future development of electronic noses and tongues. 

More detailed investigations [118] included a deeper look at the SO rovibrational spectrum and a resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI) analysis of the methyl radicals. These resulted in total rovibrational energies for the fragments. The translational energy component was not measured. The quantum yield for formation of SO in its ground electronic state ( Z) was unity within experimental error. Evidence for two types of methyl radicals, as might be expected for stepwise decomposition, was not found, so the authors suggested that the three-body dissociation pathway was dominant [118]. 

The product state distribution can be measured directly, for example by laser induced fluorescence (LIF) or resonance enhanced multiphoton ionisation (REMPI). Both of these techniques yield the quantum specific density of AB molecules that are created in the dissociation process. However, these methods can be applied only to a limited number of molecules. Whereas LIF is essentially restricted to a few diatomic molecules, REMPI allows in a few favoured cases also the state selective detection of larger molecules. 

Infrared diode laser absorption spectroscopy has been employed to detect ground-state SiH2 and allowed the first observation of its high-resolution IR spectrum by Yamada and coworkers in 1989 . State-selective multiphoton IR excitation of SiH2 has been examined computationally . The resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI) spectrum of SiH2 was observed for the first time by Robertson and Rossi and was employed to measure the SiH2 sticking coefficient on a silicon surface . ... 

Figure 1.3 HD rotational and vibrational state distributions measured for the H + D2 reaction at a collision energy of 1.3 eV. The energy is determined by the recoil energy of the H atom in the photodissociation of HI at a wavelength where it dissociates primarily to ground state I atoms. The experimental results shown [adapted from D. P. Gerrlty and J. J. Valentini, J. Chem. Phys. 81, 1298, (1984) and Valentin and Phillips (1989)] used CARS spectroscopy to determine the state of HD. E. E. Marinero, C. T. Rettner, and R. N. Zare, J. Chem. Phys. 80,4142 (1984) used resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization, REMPI, for this purpose. The figure also shows curves. Those on the left are the so-called linear surprisal representation, see Section 6.4. The plot on the right shows the same experimental data on a logarithmic scale. The curves [adapted from N. C. Blais and D. G. Truhlar, J. Chem. Phys. 83, 2201 (1985)] are a dynamical computation by the method of classical trajectories. Section 5.2.

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