Helium Droplets Doped with Sulfur and C60
Author(s) -
Martina Harnisch,
Nikolaus Weinberger,
Stephan Denifl,
P. Scheier,
O. Echt
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the journal of physical chemistry c
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.401
H-Index - 289
eISSN - 1932-7455
pISSN - 1932-7447
DOI - 10.1021/jp510870x
Subject(s) - sulfur , helium , ion , cluster (spacecraft) , spectral line , doping , cationic polymerization , electron , superfluid helium 4 , chemistry , atomic physics , analytical chemistry (journal) , materials science , chemical physics , physics , organic chemistry , nuclear physics , optoelectronics , astronomy , computer science , programming language
Clusters of sulfur are grown by passing superfluid helium nanodroplets through a pickup cell filled with sulfur vapor. In some experiments the droplets are codoped with C 60 . The doped droplets are collided with energetic electrons and the abundance distributions of positively and negatively charged cluster ions are recorded. We report, specifically, distributions of S m + , S m - , and C 60 S m - containing up to 41 sulfur atoms. We also observe complexes of sulfur cluster anions with helium; distributions are presented for He n S m - with n ≤ 31 and m ≤ 3. The similarity between anionic and cationic C 60 S m ± spectra is in striking contrast to the large differences between spectra of S m + and S m - .
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