FTIR spectroscopy is routinely used by this research group as a tool in laser-induced chemistry for identification of end products, reaction mechanisms and kinetic studies. Specific recent studies have included the dissociation of the C-0 bond in alcohols and phosphorus compounds, the formation of polycrystal-line germanium films from germane and the kinetics of the laser-induced chemistry of allylic species and NF3/NO reactions. The specifics of the experimental techniques used in these investigations have been adequately described elsewhere)-2. Fundamentally, the technique is simply the irradiation of gas phase samples using a continuous wave CO2 laser at the frequency of an absorption band in the molecule which is resonant with the output of the CO2 laser.

Date Published: 20 December 1985
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Proc. SPIE 0553, Fourier and Computerized Infrared Spectroscopy, (20 December 1985); doi: 10.1117/12.970893

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 0553:
Fourier and Computerized Infrared Spectroscopy
David G. Cameron; Jeannette G. Grasselli, Editor(s)