METHODS DEVELOPMENT FOR SPECTRAL SIMPLIFICATION OF ROOM-TEMPERATURE ROTATIONAL SPECTRA

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Title:: METHODS DEVELOPMENT FOR SPECTRAL SIMPLIFICATION OF ROOM-TEMPERATURE ROTATIONAL SPECTRA
Physical Description:: Book
Language:: English
Creator:: Kent, Erin Black
Publisher:: New College of Florida
Place of Publication:: Sarasota, Fla.
Publication Date:: 2014

Genre:: Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
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Abstract:: Room-temperature rotational spectra are dense and difficult to assign. In this thesis, two different methods were developed with a waveguide-based spectrometer that operates from 8.7 to 26.5 GHz. The first method, based on previous work by Medvedev and De Lucia, was used to estimate lower state energies of transitions by performing relative intensity measurements at a range of temperatures between -20 and +50C. The second method employed microwave-microwave double resonance measurements to determine level connectivity between rotational transitions. The relative intensity measurements were not particularly successful in this frequency, but the information gleaned from the double resonance measurements can be incorporated into other spectral search algorithms via penalty functions to simplify the spectral assignment process.
Thesis:: Thesis (B.A.) -- New College of Florida, 2014
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Bibliography:: Includes bibliographical references.
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General Note:: Faculty Sponsor: Shipman, Steven
Statement of Responsibility:: by Erin Black Kent