Electronic spectroscopy of aniline ions embedded in helium nanodroplets

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 1563-1566

  Brauer, Nils B ^a   Smolarek, Szymon ^b   Zhang, Xiaohang ^a   Buma, Wybren J ^b   Drabbels, Marcel ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND ORIGINS; BLUE SHIFT; ELECTRONIC SPECTROSCOPY; EXCITATION SPECTRUM; GAS PHASE TRANSITION; HELIUM NANODROPLETS; HIGH-DENSITY; PHONON WINGS; SOLVATION LAYERS; ZERO-PHONON LINE;

ANILINE; PHONONS;

HELIUM;

EID: 79960178614     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz200632s     Document Type: Article

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