Spectroscopy of Main Group Reactive Intermediates

在这个由化学系实验物理化学项目资助的奖项中，肯塔基大学的Dennis J.Clouthier教授和他的研究生将研究一系列主族反应中间体的高分辨率电子光谱。这些研究将在自由喷射膨胀中产生自由基，并用各种基于激光的光谱方法来探测它们。这些研究将提供光谱工具，使研究人员能够光学探索涉及半导体化学气相沉积的复杂、活性化学体系。此外，所研究的一些含硅物种也可能存在于太空中，实验室对其光谱的测量将允许根据天文来源的光谱确定它们在太空中的存在。

In this award, funded by the Experimental Physical Chemistry Program of the Chemistry Division, Prof. Dennis J. Clouthier of the University of Kentucky and his graduate research students will investigate the high-resolution, electronic spectroscopy of a series of main-group reactive intermediates. These studies will generate radicals in a free jet expansion and probe them with a variety of laser-based spectroscopic methods. These studies will provide the spectroscopic tools to enable researchers to optically probe the complex, reactive chemical systems involved in the chemical vapor deposition of semiconductors. In addition, some of the Si-containing species studied may also be present in space, and the laboratory measurement of their spectra will allow the determination of their presence there from spectra from astronomical sources.