TB. ELECTRONIC (SMALL)

TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1999 - 8:30AM

Room: 1009 SMITH LAB

Chair: ANTHONY MERER, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC Canada

TB01 15min8:30

PHOTOFRAGMENTATION SPECTROSCOPY OF ZIRCONIUM AND NIOBIUM CLUSTERS IN A REFLECTRON TIME-OF-FLIGHT (TOF) MASS SPECTROMETER AND DENSITY FUNCTIONAL CALCULATIONS ON ZIRCONIUM AND NIOBIUM DIMER CATIONS..

M. AYDIN, W. M. WANG., S. B DEOSARAN, J. R. LOMBARDI, D. M. LINDSAY, Department of Chemistry and Center For Analysis of Structure and Interfaces (CASI),City College of New York of City University of New York 137th. Street and Convent Ave. New York, NY 10031; J. G. EATONB, Department of Chemistry, North Dakota State University..

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TB02			15min8:47

VIBRATIONALLY RESOLVED NEGATIVE ION PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY OF Nb₈.

T. P. MARCY AND D. G. LEOPOLD, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455..

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TB03			10min9:04

FOURIER TRANSFORM EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY AND AB INITIO CALCULATIONS ON OsN.

R. S. RAM, Department of Chemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721; J. LIÉVIN, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Moléculaire, CP 160/09 Av. F. D. Roosevelt 50, Bruxelles, Belgium; P. F. BERNATH, Department of Chemistry, University of Waterlook Waterlook Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1.

TB04			10min9:16

SUB-DOPPLER LASER SPECTROSCOPY OF MoN.

JIANG HE AND A. S-C. CHEUNG, Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong.

TB05			15min9:28

NEAR INFRARED LASER SPECTROSCOPY OF TITANIUM SULFIDE.

QIN RAN, W. S. TAM, CHENSHENG MA, A. S-C. CHEUNG, Department of Chemistry, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong.

TB06			15min9:45

ROTATIONAL AND HYPERFINE STRUCTURE IN THE B - X TRANSITION OF NIOBIUM METHYLIDYNE, NbCH.

D. J. CLOUTHIER, Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0055; C. T. KINGSTON AND A. J. MERER, Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1, Canada.

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INTERMISSION

TB07			10min10:20

THERMAL EMISSION SPECTRUM OF THE YTTERBIUM MONOHALIDES IN THE REGION 450 - 590 NM.

K. N. UTTAM AND R. GOPAL, Saha's Spectroscopy Laboratory, Physics Department, Allahabad University, Allahabad 211002, India.

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TB08			15min10:32

PROBING THE ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF YbCl USING LASER SPECTROSCOPY.

TODD C. MELVILLE AND JOHN A. COXON, Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S. Canada B3H 4J3.

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TB09			15min10:49

INVESTIGATION OF AUTLER-TOWNES SPLITTING AND AC STARK EFFECT IN A LITHIUM MOLECULE BY MULTI-PHOTON SPECTROSCOPY.

JIANBING QI, FRANK C. SPANO, GUENADIY LAZAROV, ZUEJUN WANG AND A. MARJATTA LYYRA, Department of Physics and Chemistry*, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122; LI LI, Department of Modern and Applied Physics, Tsinhua University, Beijing, China 100084; LORENZO M. NARDUCCI, Department of Physics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104.

TB10			10min11:06

LASER EXCITATION SPECTRA AND FRANK-CONDON FACTORS FOR Bi₂ X ¹ Sigma

_g ⁺ \to A0 _u ⁺.

R. FRANKLIN, PHILLIPS LABORATORY, KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, NEW MEXICO 87117-6008; G. PERRAM, DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING PHYSICS, AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, OHIO 45433-7775.

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TB11			10min11:18

PREDISSOCIATIVE RATE CONSTANTS FOR Bi₂(A) FROM PULSED DYE LASER LIFETIME DATA.

M. DOLEZAL AND G. PERRAM, DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING PHYSICS, AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, OHIO 45433-7775.

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TB12			15min11:30

DIRECT POTENTIAL FIT ANALYSIS OF EMISSION INTO X ¹ Sigma

_g⁺ STATE Rb₂: NOTHING ELSE WILL DO!.

JENNING Y. SETO AND ROBERT J. LE ROY, Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada; JEAN VERGÈS AND CLAUDE AMIOT, Laboratorie Aimé Cotton, Campus d'Orsay, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France.

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TB13	Post-deadline Abstract		15min11:47

TRANSIENT FREQUENCY ABSORPTION STUDIES OF MOLECULES PRODUCED IN A LASER ABLATION - SUPERSONIC EXPANSION SOURCE.

T. C. STEIMLE, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287-1604; M. COSTEN, G. E. HALL AND T. J. SEARS, Department of Chemistry Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973.

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