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Phys. Rev. A 70, 041201(R) (2004) [4 pages]

Isomer-specific spectroscopy of metal clusters trapped in a matrix: Ag9

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Christoph Sieber, Jean Buttet, Wolfgang Harbich, and Christian Félix
Institut de Physique des Nanostructures, École Polytechnique Fédérale (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Roland Mitrić and Vlasta Bonačić-Koutecký
Institut für Chemie, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Strasse 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany

Received 21 August 2003; published 12 October 2004

Clusters of metal atoms at a fixed size can assume different structural arrangements, known as isomers, which may have nearly the same energy. Therefore, at given experimental conditions distribution of these isomers can be present. While the size selection is a relatively common technique, the isomer selection is not; it is therefore more difficult to obtain information about a single isomer. We report here on isomer-specific spectroscopy of Ag9 clusters together with ab initio calculations allowing to identify the isomer responsible for the measured excitation pattern and fluorescence.

© 2004 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.70.041201
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.70.041201
PACS:
36.40.Mr, 36.40.Vz, 61.46.+w, 73.22.−f