RE. MICROWAVE

THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1998 - 8:30AM

Room: 170 MATH ANNEX

Chair: ANGELA R. HIGHT WALKER, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD

RE01 15min8:30

A PORTABLE, PULSED-MOLECULAR-BEAM, FOURIER-TRANSFORM MICROWAVE SPECTROMETER DESIGNED FOR CHEMICAL ANALYSIS .

RICHARD D. SUENRAM, Optical Technology Division, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899; JENS-UWE GRABOW, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, D-24098 Kiel, Germany.

[HTML] [GIF] [PS] [PDF] [DVI]

RE02			10min8:47

SUBMILLIMETER-WAVE SPECTROSCOPY OF SHORT-LIVED SPECIES USING A BWO.

ISAMU MORIN AND KOICHI M. T. YAMADA, National Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, Higashi 1-1-4, Tsukuba 305-8562, Japan.

[HTML] [GIF] [PS] [PDF] [DVI]

RE03			15min8:59

A HIGH SPECTRAL PURITY FEMTO-SECOND DEMODULATION SOURCE FOR SUBMILLIMETER SPECTROSCOPY.

J. R. DEMERS, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, 174 W. 18th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1106; T. M. GOYETTE, University of Massachusetts, Submillimeter Technology Lab, 175 Cabot Street, Lowell, Massachusetts, 01854; B. D. GUENTHER, Physics Department, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 27708-0305; F. C. DE LUCIA, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, 174 W. 18th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1106.

[HTML] [GIF] [PS] [PDF] [DVI]

RE04			15min9:16

ANALYTICAL APPLICATIONS WITH THE FAST SCAN SUBMILLIMETER SPECTROSCOPIC TECHNIQUE (FASSST): IDENTIFICATION OF INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS IN MIXTURES.

S. ALBERT, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, 174 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210; S. P. BELOV, I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, D-50937 Köln, Germany; F. C. DE LUCIA, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, 174 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210.

[HTML] [GIF] [PS] [PDF] [DVI]

RE05	CANCELLED				15min9:33

NEW MILLIMETER-WAVE INTRACAVITY JET SPECTROMETER BASED ON OROTRON.

B. S. DUMESH AND L. A. SURIN, Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142092 Troitsk, Moscow region, Russia; I. PAK, F. LEWEN, G. WINNEWISSER, I.Physical Institute, University of Cologne, D-50937 Cologne, Germany.

[HTML] [GIF] [PS] [PDF] [DVI]

RE06	Post-deadline Abstract - Original Abstract Withdrawn		15min9:50

FTIR-BASED SPECTROSCOPY OF DNA PHONON MODES WITHIN BIOLOGICAL AGENTS AT SUBMILLIMETER WAVE FREQUENCIES.

DWIGHT L. WOOLARD, FRANK J. CROWNE, US Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD 20783-1197, USA; TATIANA R. GLOBUS, BORIS L. GELMONT, JEFFREY L. HESLER, THOMAS W. CROWE, DAVID W. PORTERFIELD, NAGINI PARAVASTU, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2442; ALLAN C. SAMUELS, JAMES O. JENSEN, JANET L. JENSEN AND WILLIAM R. LOEROP, US Army Edgewood Research Development and Engineering Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21010-5423, USA.

[HTML] [GIF] [PS] [PDF] [DVI]

INTERMISSION

RE07			15min10:20

MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY WITH A HIGH-RESOLUTION, FREQUENCY-CALIBRATED TERAHERTZ SPECTROMETER BASED ON OPTICAL PHOTOMIXING IN LOW-TEMPERATURE-GROWN GaAs.

PIN CHEN, 127-72 Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125; SHUJI MATSUURA, GEOFFREY A. BLAKE, 170-25 Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125; J. C. PEARSON, HERBERT M. PICKETT, MS 183-301, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109.

[HTML] [GIF] [PS] [PDF] [DVI]

RE08			15min10:37

IMPROVEMENTS IN STARK EFFECT MEASUREMENTS IN A PULSED NOZZLE FOURIER TRANSFORM MICROWAVE SPECTROMETER.

DANIELA CONSALVO AND WOLFGANG STAHL, Institut für Physikalische Chemie der RWTH, Templergraben 59, D-52056 Aachen, Germany.

[HTML] [GIF] [PS] [PDF] [DVI]

RE09			15min10:54

DETECTION OF VAN DER WAALS VIBRATIONAL TRANSITIONS USING A NEW MW-THz DOUBLE RESONANCE TECHNIQUE.

VLADIMIR MARKOV, YUNJIE XU AND WOLFGANG JÄGER, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, T6G 2G2.

[HTML] [GIF] [PS] [PDF] [DVI]

RE10			15min11:11

HYDROGEN PRESSURE BROADENING OF AMMONIA INVERSION TRANSITIONS FROM 10 - 40 K.

D. R. WILLEY, R. E. TIMLIN JR., P. L. PONDILLO AND M. DERAMO, Dept. of Physics, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA 16335.

[HTML] [GIF] [PS] [PDF] [DVI]

RE11			15min11:28

TIME RESOLVED STUDIES OF LOW TEMPERATURE INELASTIC COLLISIONS: H₂S-He.

CHRISTOPHER D. BALL AND FRANK C. DE LUCIA, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, 174 W. 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210.

[HTML] [GIF] [PS] [PDF] [DVI]

RE12			15min11:45

EVIDENCE OF RESONANT COLLISIONS IN VELOCITY SELECTIVE STUDIES OF THE DIPOLE-DIPOLE COLLISION CROSS SECTION OF ¹³CH₃F .

LIAM M. DUFFY, Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC 27706; DAVID SKATRUD, Army Research Office, P.O. Box 12211, RTP, NC 27709.

[HTML] [GIF] [PS] [PDF] [DVI]