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Spectrometer: FTIR - HR

High Resolution Fourier Transform Spectrometer
High Resolution Fourier Transform Spectrometer

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  • Bruker IFS 120HR maximum resolution of 0.0015 cm-1 equipped with several gas cells
  • Bruker IFS 125HR maximum resolution of 0.0013 cm-1 equipped with gas cell and White cell

The infrared spectroscopy laboratory in EMSL has two research-grade Fourier transform spectrometers available for collaborative use. The first is a Bruker IFS 120HR that has a maximum resolution of 0.0015 cm-1 and can cover the 10 cm-1 to 45,000 cm-1 range (far-infrared to ultraviolet). The spectrometer is equipped with several gas sample cells: a 20 cm gas cell with temperature control over -60 °C to 80 °C, 40 m and 200 m White cells (room temperature), and a cw slit-jet molecular beam for recording spectra of supersonically cooled molecular spectra (rotational temperature down to 15 K).

The second spectrometer is a Bruker IFS 125HR that has a maximum resolution of 0.0013 cm-1 and can also cover the 10 cm-1 to 45,000 cm-1 range. It also has a 20 cm gas cell (-60 °C to 80 °C temperature control) and a 40 m White cell (room temperature). Both systems have an all-metal gas manifold with high-precision capacitance manometers for gas pressure measurements. Both spectrometers can be used for molecular spectroscopy line position studies or intensity and line-broadening studies.

  1. High-resolution rovibrational study of the Coriolis-coupled nu(12) and nu(15) modes of [1.1.1]propellane.
  2. Line Intensities for the v1, v3, and v1 + v3 Bands of 34SO2.
  3. (SO2)-S-34-O-16: High-resolution analysis of the (030),(101), (111), (002) and (201) vibrational states; determination of equilibrium rotational constants for sulfur dioxide and anharmonic vibrational constants.
  4. Tunneling Splittings for "O...O Stretching" and Other Vibrations of Tropolone Isotopomers Observed in the Infrared Spectrum Below 800 cm-1.
  5. High Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy of [1.1.1] Propellane.
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