Excited-state Raman spectroscopy with and without actinic excitation: S 1 Raman spectra of trans-azobenzene

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 140, Issue 18, 2014, Pages

  Dobryakov, A L ^a   Quick, M ^a   Ioffe, I N ^a,b   Granovsky, A A ^a,c   Ernsting, N P ^a   Kovalenko, S A ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c Firefly Project   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITED STATES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTRONIC TRANSITION; EXCITED-STATE SPECTRA; FEMTOSECOND STIMULATED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPIES; N-HEXANE; RAMAN PUMP;

AZOBENZENE;

EID: 84904792142     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4874854     Document Type: Article

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