https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530170081
Fluorescence spectroscopy of silver clusters formed in rare gas droplets
Fritz-Haber-Institute der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg
4-6, D-14195
Berlin, Germany
Corresponding author: a rabin@fhi-berlin.mpg.de
Received:
30
November
2000
Published online: 15 September 2001
The Pick Up technique allows continuous formation of high density metal cluster beams in the otherwise hardly accessible size range Me2 to about Me50. With an apparatus based on the use of cryo-condensation pumps, Ar as inert gas for production of the host clusters by adiabatic expansion and silver as metal we demonstrate how the various source parameters influence the composition and mean size of the resulting cluster distributions. The analysis in the gas phase by means fluorescence spectroscopy allows to conclude that an Ar shell encapsulates the metal clusters.
PACS: 36.40.Vz – Optical properties of clusters / 39.10.+j – Atomic and molecular beam sources and techniques
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2001
