The vibrational spectrum of hydrogen atoms in magnesium hydride has been studied by means of inelasticneutron and Raman-scattering experiments between 12 and 295 K. After careful evaluation of multiple scattering and multiphonon contributions, we provide a vibrational frequency spectrum up to 180 meV and the mean-square displacement of hydrogen atoms. The inelastic light scattering spectra of M...

Raman spectroscopy is a non-invasive, non-destructive technique for the study of the macromolecular composition of tissues. Raman spectra were obtained from intact fresh and paraformaldehyde fixed rabbit lenses and from thin slices prepared from these lenses. In addition the Raman spectrum of an intact 82-yr-old human lens was compared with a slice of the same lens. It appeared that fixation wi...

tomato is a major fruit, as well as a major food science product. there is a need of determining the quality attributes of this fruit (nondestructively) due to the increasing demand of the in agro-industrially controlled areas. most of the commonly employed techniques are time consuming and involve a considerable degree of manual work. sample preparation, juice making, and laboratory tests ...

Clouds play a key role in the climate system, for they can result in a warming or a cooling effect according to their characteristics and altitudes. Raman Lidars have been proven to be a very useful remote sensing tool to characterize cloud properties and locations. In this paper, cloud temperature and optical depth are obtained using rotational Raman (RR) and vibrational Raman techniques. Resu...

Stimulated Raman backscattering (RBS) of intense laser radiation confined by a single-mode plasma channel with a radial variation of plasma frequency greater than a homogeneous-plasma RBS bandwidth is characterized by a strong transverse localization of resonantly-driven electron plasma waves (EPW). The EPW localization reduces the peak growth rate of RBS and increases the amplification bandwid...

Improved parameters for the description of Rayleigh scattering in air and for the detailed rotational Raman scattering component for scattering by O(2) and N(2) are presented for the wavelength range 200-1000 nm. These parameters enable more accurate calculations to be made of bulk molecular scattering and of the Ring effect for a variety of atmospheric radiative transfer and constituent retrie...

The NASA Stardust mission to comet Wild2 returned to Earth in 2006 with an aerogel collector containing trapped cometary particles. The cometary particles were captured at a relative velocity of 6.1 km/s, creating three-dimensional (3D) tracks containing compressed aerogel, melted aerogel, fragmented cometary material, and void space [1]. Each track represents a unique hypervelocity impact even...

G. Blumberg,1,2,* M. V. Klein,1 and S-W. Cheong3 1NSF Science and Technology Center for Superconductivity and Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801-3080 2Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Rävala 10, Tallinn EE0001, Estonia 3Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974, and Department of Physics and Astronom...

WO,/ZrO, catalysts prepared by different methods are distinct in their catalytic behaviour. In this work, WO,/ZrO, catalysts prepared by impregnating Zr(OH), and crystallized ZrO, and then calcining at selected temperatures were characterized by means of qualitative and quantitative Raman spectroscopy. The results showed that ZrO, in WO,/ZrO, obtained from crystallized ZrO, (referred to as WZ) ...