Absorption spectra of peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN, CH3C(O)OONO2) vapour at room temperature (295K) have been measured in the mid-infrared range, 550–2200 cm−1 (18.2–4.55μm), using a Fourier Transform infrared spectrometer at instrument resolutions of 0.25 and 0.03 cm−1 (unapodised). Between five and eight measurements were obtained for each spectral band of PAN in the pressure range 0.24–2.20 mb ...

ISO mid-infrared absorption data helps to distinguish between radiative and collisional pumping mechanisms in 1612MHz OH masers in various environments. Archive data of OH absorption at 34.6 and 53.3 μm shows different behavior and different pumping rates for different types of maser sources. 1. Mid-Infrared absorption in 1612MHz OH masers Mid-infrared spectroscopy by the Infrared Space Observa...

A synthetic strategy involving a combination of tetra-thionation and amine substitution in the bay region of a perylene diimide (PDI) leads to remarkable examples of neutral PDIs with intense absorption maxima in the near infrared. Generation of the corresponding monoanions red shifts the absorption profile to give short-wavelength infrared bands.

It is well known that most crystals which show Reststrahlen behavior are nearly transparent at low temperatures for far-infrared radiation at frequencies below the infrared active eigen-frequency. The crystals are nearly opaque at room temperature due to strong absorption by phonon combination processes [1]. We report experimental results which show that for T1C1 a pronounced LA-TA two phonon d...

We used Arecibo Observatory and the Green Bank Telescope to observe OH in 12 earlytype galaxies with known reservoirs of dense gas. We present three new detections of OH in absorption in the 1667 MHz line. One objective of our survey was to find evidence of molecular outflows, but our sensitivity and the strength of the OH absorption were insufficient to detect outflows. The detected sources ha...

Black phosphorus is an infrared layered material. Its bandgap complements other widely studied two-dimensional materials: zero-gap graphene and visible/near-infrared gap transition metal dichalcogenides. Although highly desirable, a comprehensive infrared characterization is still lacking. Here we report a systematic infrared study of mechanically exfoliated few-layer black phosphorus, with thi...

The near-infrared absorption of two chromophore functionalized polymers and combinations of seventeen different guest chromophores in seven different organic polymer matrices were investigated to assess the effect of chromophore structure and environment on absorption. The near-infrared absorption losses were found to be dramatically larger by as much as 2-3 orders of magnitude in polymer matri...

UNLABELLED Due to the localized surface plasmon (LSP) effect induced by Ag nanoparticles inside black silicon, the optical absorption of black silicon is enhanced dramatically in near-infrared range (1,100 to 2,500 nm). The black silicon with Ag nanoparticles shows much higher absorption than black silicon fabricated by chemical etching or reactive ion etching over ultraviolet to near-infrared ...