ROTATIONAL RELAXATION AT THE AIR-WATER-INTERFACE BY TIME-RESOLVED 2ND HARMONIC-GENERATION

被引:63
作者
CASTRO, A [1 ]
SITZMANN, EV [1 ]
ZHANG, D [1 ]
EISENTHAL, KB [1 ]
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[1] COLUMBIA UNIV,DEPT CHEM,NEW YORK,NY 10027
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10.1021/j100171a003
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O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
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070304 ; 081704 ;
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Time-resolved surface second harmonic generation has been used to study the picosecond rotational relaxation dynamics of free Rhodamine 6G molecules at the air/water interface. It was found that different elements of the second-order nonlinear susceptibility, chi-(2)ijk, show different kinetics, which indicates that rotational motions have been observed. The data also suggest that the observed rotational relaxation is due chiefly to the out-of-plane motions at the interface and that the ground- and excited-state molecules have different equilibrium orientational distributions.
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