In the range of 83 500-89 200 cm ‘, the photoionization spectrum of HI is strongly influenced by autoionization of Rydberg series converging to the higher lying 2B,,2 component of the spin-orbit split ‘H ionic ground state. The photoelectron yield spectrum, exhibiting the various autoionization processes, has been measured on a rotationally cooled sample ( T,,, 13 K), with a spectral resolution...

The four-body dissociative photodetachment (DPD) dynamics of O-8 were studied using photoelectron photofragment coincidence (PPC) spectroscopy. All four neutral photofragments were measured in coincidence with the photodetached electron, yielding a five-body kinematically complete experiment. Velocity and angular correlations for DPD of O(-)(8) are presented and compared to those for O(-)(6). T...

Facile low-temperature chemical route for the synthesis of ZnO nanoparticles is reported in this paper. Morphologically uniform and spherical shape with an average particle size of 8.8 nm and wurtzite phase with the crystalline structure of as-synthesized ZnO nanoparticles were confirmed by X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Transmissi...

Electronic excited and ionized states of pyridine were reinvestigated by the symmetry-adapted cluster configuration interaction ~SAC-CI! method using an extended basis set and a wide active space. The present SAC-CI results for the singlet and triplet excited states are greatly improved and agree well with the experimental observations, providing a firm assignment of all low-lying n→p* and p→p*...

The N2 Carroll-Yoshino (CY) c94 2 X (0,0) and (0,1) Rydberg bands between 95 and 99 nm were reported to be the most prominent EUV emission features in Voyager 1 ultraviolet spectrometer (UVS) airglow spectra from Titan’s atmosphere. Although c94 is strongly excited by photoelectron impact, the (0,0) band is optically thick near peak production, so a multiple-scattering model is employed to calc...

Ultraviolet light induced changes in polyimide liquid-crystal alignment films were investigated. Infrared, UV-visible, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and electron-spin-resonance measurements indicated that bond breaking and subsequent oxidation reactions occur in polyimide films ~SE7210, OCG284, DuPont 2555 and 2540! during the broadband UV illumination in air. Mechanical rubbing has no effe...

Sol-gel technique was used to coat multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) with anatase titania to increasing the surface area and improve the photocatalytic activity of TiO2. Room temperature ballistic conduct of MWCNT combined with semiconducting behavior of anatase brought about a photocatalytic improvement of ~37 % with respect to the highest methyl orange decolorization flair. For characteriza...

Nearly 100 years ago, Moses Gomberg introduced the scientific community to the study of organic radicals,1 concluding this classic manuscript with the comment that, “This work will be continued and I wish to reserve the field for myself.” Gomberg’s studies of triphenylmethyl radical were only the beginning of intense research into the properties of the newly discovered trivalent carbon, and des...

This review presents an overall discussion on the morphology analysis and optimization for perovskite (PVSK) solar cells. Surface morphology and energy alignment have been proven to play a dominant role in determining the device performance. The effect of the key parameters such as solution condition and preparation atmosphere on the crystallization of PVSK, the characterization of surface morp...