Energy transfer processes during the scattering of vibrationally excited no molecules from a graphite surface

✍ Scribed by H. Vach; J. Häger; H. Walther

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 434 KB
• Volume: 133
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(87)87067-7

✦ Synopsis

Vibrationally excited NO molecules scattered from a cleaved graphite surface show rotational state populations and rotational accommodation identical to those of ground-state incoming molecules. The survival probability of the vibrational state is found to vary between 75 and 95%, depending on the surface temperature. Transfers of vibrational energy to both molecular rotation and translation are shown to be of only minor importance for the vibrational relaxation during the NO/graphite interaction.