Ultrafast electronic relaxation and vibrational cooling dynamics of Au 144(SC2H4Ph)60 nanocluster probed by transient mid-IR spectroscopy

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 31, 2014, Pages 18233-18239

  Mustalahti, Satu ^a   Myllyperkiö, Pasi ^a   Lahtinen, Tanja ^a   Salorinne, Kirsi ^a   Malola, Sami ^a   Koivisto, Jaakko ^a   Häkkinen, Hannu ^a   Pettersson, Mika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC STATES; EXPERIMENTS; GOLD; LIGANDS; MOLECULES; NANOCLUSTERS; RELAXATION TIME; STRETCHING;

CONTINUOUS WAVE IRRADIATIONS; ELECTRONIC RELAXATION; METALLIC BEHAVIORS; MID-IR SPECTROSCOPY; MOLAR ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT; STRETCHING VIBRATIONS; VIBRATIONAL COOLING; VIBRATIONAL DYNAMICS;

ELECTRONIC COOLING;

EID: 84905845423     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp505464z     Document Type: Article

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