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Speaker Name/Affiliation
Professor Alec Wodtke / Max Planck Inst. & U. Göttingen, Germany; UC Santa Barbara; & Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne, Switzerland
When
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Seminar Type
Location (Room)
JILA Auditorium
Event Details & Abstracts
Abstract: Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) provide sufficient sensitivity to enable laser induced fluorescence (LIF) experiments in the mid-infrared, an exciting technical development for studying molecule-surface interactions. In this talk, I will present results of experiments on the vibrational dynamics of monolayers and multilayers of solid CO adsorbed at the surface of a NaCl crystal that provide observations of quantum state resolved dynamics.
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