Angle-resolved energetic-ion-yield spectra were observed in the region of the O 1s to Rydberg excitation of CO2 with incident photon energy resolving power E/DE.14 000. The assignments of the electronic states were established in accordance with the angular distribution data. All the observed vibrational structures were assigned to the antisymmetric stretching vibrations caused by the vibronic ...

Mechanistic aspects of some of the early electron transfer steps occurring in photosynthetic reaction centers are discussed. Starting from the normal modes of the redox cofactors involved in the electron transfer processes, we show how a series of quantities which regulate electron transfer rates, such as (i) the electron transfer active modes, (ii) the intramolecular reorganization energy, and...

The analysis of Pt II is extended by using accurate wavelength measurements by Sansonetti et al. Forty-three new even and 104 new odd levels have been found. The Slater-Condon parametric method is used for the interpretation of the 5d9, 5d86s, and 5d76s2 low even configurations and the 5d8(7s+6d) high even configurations with root mean square deviations smaller than 80 cm-1. The importance of t...

We present spatially resolved vibronic spectroscopy of individual pentacene molecules in a double-barrier tunneling junction. It is observed that even for this effective single-level system the energy dissipation associated with electron attachment varies spatially by more than a factor of 2. This is in contrast to the usual treatment of electron-vibron coupling in the Franck-Condon picture. Ou...

We measure electron tunneling in single-molecule transistors made from C140, a molecule with a mass-spring-mass geometry chosen as a model system to study electron-vibration coupling. We observe vibration-assisted tunneling at an energy corresponding to the stretching mode of C140. Molecular modeling provides explanations for why this mode couples more strongly to electron tunneling than the ot...

Fresnel reflection amplitude coefficients (fractional amplitudes) at the surface of an isotropic, intrinsically nonmagnetic chiral medium are derived on the basis of the Drude–Condon model of optical activity. The eigenvalue–eigenvector solution is obtained with use of Berreman’s 4 3 4 matrix method. Self-consistent results are obtained when the calculations are based on a new 4 3 4 matrix for ...