H NMR Evidence for a Change in The Local Hydrogen Environment of Sites Associated with the Staebler-Wronski Effect in a-Si:H

2002 ◽  
Vol 715 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Su ◽  
Robin Plachy ◽  
P. C. Taylor ◽  
S. Stone ◽  
G. Ganguly ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Line Shape ◽  
Defect Density ◽  
Hydrogen Atoms ◽  
Hydrogen Environment ◽  
H Nmr ◽  
Line Shapes ◽  
Different Temperatures ◽  
Staebler Wronski Effect

AbstractWe study the H NMR line shapes of a sample of a-Si:H under several conditions: 1) as grown, 2) light-soaked for 600 hours, and 3) light-soaked followed by annealing at different temperatures. At T = 7 K, the NMR line shape of the sample after light soaking exhibits an additional doublet compared to that of the sample as-grown. This doublet is an indication of a closely separated hydrogen pair. The distance between the two hydrogen atoms is estimated to be about (2.3 ± 0.2) Å. The concentration of these hydrogen sites is estimated to be between 1017 and 1018 cm-3 consistent with ESR measurements of the defect density after light soaking. This doublet disappears after the sample is annealed at 200°C for 4 hours.

Deuterium NMR Study of the Solid-Solid Phase Transition in Phenethylammonium Bromide

1991 ◽  
Vol 46 (8) ◽  
pp. 691-696 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco L. H. Gruwel ◽  
Roderick E. Wasylishen
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
Line Shape ◽  
Lattice Relaxation ◽  
Spin Lattice Relaxation ◽  
Temperature Phase ◽  
Spin Lattice ◽  
H Nmr ◽  
Line Shapes ◽  
Low Temperature Phase

AbstractUsing 2H NMR, the dynamics of the cation in phenethylammonium bromide were studied in the two solid phases. Line shape and spin-lattice relaxation rate studies of the ammonium headgroups and the adajacent methylene groups indicate the onset of alkyl-chain motion prior to the first order phase transition. In the low-temperature phase the line shape and the spin-lattice relaxation rates of the -ND3 groups are consistent with C3 jumps and an activation energy of 54±4 kJ mol-1. However, in the high-temperature phase the spin-lattice relaxation studies indicate the presence of small-angle diffusion of the -ND3 groups around the C3 symmetry axis. In this phase the -CD2- groups show line shapes typical of large-amplitude two-site jumps occurring at a rate > 107 s-1 . In the low-temperature phase, at temperatures below 295 K, the -CD2- 2H NMR line shapes indicate that the C - D bonds are essentially static

Observation of a Hydrogen Doublet Site in High Defect Density As-Grown a-Si:H by 1H NMR

2005 ◽  
Vol 862 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Bobela ◽  
T. Su ◽  
P. C. Taylor ◽  
G. Ganguly
Keyword(s):  
Defect Density ◽  
Hydrogen Separation ◽  
Vibrational Modes ◽  
Nmr Studies ◽  
Temperature Range ◽  
H Nmr ◽  
Line Shapes ◽  
Line Shape Analysis ◽  
Doublet Line ◽  
Hydrogenated Amorphous

Abstract1H NMR studies of hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) with ˜1017 cm-3 defects grown by PECVD with a rate of 5 Å/s show the existence of a hydrogen doublet for both asgrown and light-soaked samples. We observe the doublet over the temperature range from 5 to 20 K in a sample where no light soaking has occurred. The doublet line shapes display no narrowing over this temperature range. Vibrational modes characteristic of SiH2 wagging and scissor modes are seen from infrared spectroscopy. These results suggest that the doublet is due to SiH2 that occurs at a density of approximately 1 at. % in this sample. From line shape analysis, we estimate a lower limit of 1.8 ˜ for the hydrogen-to-hydrogen separation.

Determination of the Accurate Values of the Rate Constant and Thermodynamic Parameters for the Rotation About the C(sp2)-C(aryl) Bond; Adamantan-1-yl 3-Bromo-2,4,6-trimethylphenyl Ketone

1998 ◽  
Vol 63 (7) ◽  
pp. 955-966
Author(s):  
Eva Přibylová ◽  
Miroslav Holík
Keyword(s):  
Thermodynamic Parameters ◽  
Shape Analysis ◽  
Rate Constants ◽  
Line Shape ◽  
Microsoft Excel ◽  
Hindered Rotation ◽  
H Nmr ◽  
Line Shape Analysis ◽  
Coalescence Temperature

Four programs for the 1H NMR line shape analysis: two commercial - Winkubo (Bruker) and DNMR5 (QCPE 165) and two written in our laboratory - Newton (in Microsoft Excel) and Simtex (in Matlab) have been tested in order to get highly accurate rate constants of the hindered rotation about a single bond. For this purpose four testing criteria were used, two of them were also developed by us. As supplementary determinations the rate constants obtained for the coalescence temperature and for the thermal racemization of chromatographically separated enantiomers were used which fitted well the temperature dependence of the rate constants determined by the line shape analysis. As a test compound adamantan-1-yl 3-bromo-2,4,6-trimethylphenyl ketone was prepared and studied. It was shown that supermodified simplex method used in our algorithm (Simtex), though time consuming, gives the most accurate values of the rate constants and consequently the calculated thermodynamic parameters Ea, ∆H≠, and ∆S≠ lay in relatively narrow confidence intervals.

Critical Raman line shape behavior of fluid nitrogen

2004 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Musso ◽  
F. Matthai ◽  
D. Keutel ◽  
K.-L. Oehme
Keyword(s):  
Raman Line ◽  
Line Shape ◽  
Line Broadening ◽  
Vibrational Resonance ◽  
Critical Isochore ◽  
Molecular Fluids ◽  
Detection Techniques ◽  
Gas Phases ◽  
Line Shapes ◽  
Band Position

Isotropic Raman line shapes of simple molecular fluids exhibit critical line broadening near their respective liquid-gas critical points. In order to observe this phenomenon, it is essential that the band position of a given vibrational mode is density-dependent, and that vibrational depopulation processes negligibly contribute to line broadening. Special attention was given to the fact that the isotropic (i.e., nonrotationally broadened) line shape of liquid N2 is affected by resonant intermolecular vibrational interactions between identical oscillators. By means of the well-chosen isotopic mixture (14N2).975 - (14N15N).025, the temperature and density dependences of shift, width, and asymmetry of the resonantly coupled 14N2 and, depending on the S/N ratio available, of the resonantly uncoupled 14N15N were determined, with up to milli-Kelvin resolution, in the coexisting liquid and gas phases and along the critical isochore, using a highest-resolution double monochromator and modern charge-coupled device detection techniques. Clear evidence was found that vibrational resonance couplings are present in all dense phases studied.

scholarly journals Pressure effects on water vapour lines: beyond the Voigt profile

2012 ◽  
Vol 370 (1968) ◽  
pp. 2495-2508 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. H. Ngo ◽  
H. Tran ◽  
R. R. Gamache ◽  
J. M. Hartmann
Keyword(s):  
Water Vapour ◽  
Line Shape ◽  
Pressure Effects ◽  
Shape Model ◽  
Line Shapes ◽  
Voigt Profile ◽  
Voigt Model ◽  
Velocity Changes ◽  
Dynamics Simulations ◽  
Induced Velocity

A short overview of recent results on the effects of pressure (collisions) regarding the shape of isolated infrared lines of water vapour is presented. The first part of this study considers the basic collisional quantities, which are the pressure-broadening and -shifting coefficients, central parameters of the Lorentzian (and Voigt) profile and thus of any sophisticated line-shape model. Through comparisons of measured values with semi-classical calculations, the influences of the molecular states (both rotational and vibrational) involved and of the temperature are analysed. This shows the relatively unusual behaviour of H 2 O broadening, with evidence of a significant vibrational dependence and the fact that the broadening coefficient (in cm −1 atm −1 ) of some lines increases with temperature. In the second part of this study, line shapes beyond the Voigt model are considered, thus now taking ‘velocity effects’ into account. These include both the influence of collisionally induced velocity changes that lead to the so-called Dicke narrowing and the influence of the dependence of collisional parameters on the speed of the radiating molecule. Experimental evidence of deviations from the Voigt shape is presented and analysed. The interest of classical molecular dynamics simulations, to model velocity changes, together with semi-classical calculations of the speed-dependent collisional parameters for line-shape predictions from ‘first principles’, are discussed.

13C NMR-spektroskopische Untersuchungen an Äthylaluminiumverbindungen / 13C NMR Spectroscopic Investigations of Ethylaluminium Compounds

1976 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 730-736 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Rottler ◽  
C. G. Kreiter ◽  
G. Fink
Keyword(s):  
Temperature Dependence ◽  
Exchange Reaction ◽  
13C Nmr ◽  
Line Shape ◽  
Nmr Spectra ◽  
Exchange Process ◽  
Kcal Mole ◽  
Line Shapes ◽  
Calculated Line ◽  
C Nmr

The 13C NMR spectra of the ethylaluminium compounds [Al(C2H5)xCl3_x]2 x = 1, 1,5, 2 and 3 are presented and factors governing the temperature dependence of the line shape are discussed. The exchange reaction of terminal ethyl groups for chlorine ligands and ethyl ligands, resp., in ethylaluminium-sesquichloride was investigated by fitting the calculated line shapes to the observed spectra.The energy of activation of this exchange process was determined as to be 12,3 ‡ 1,5 kcal/mole. The synthesis of 13C2-[Al(C2H5)Cl2]2 is described.

Anesthetic-membrane interaction: A 2H nuclear magnetic resonance study of the binding of specifically deuterated tetracaine and procaine to phosphatidylcholine

1984 ◽  
Vol 62 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 178-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric C. Kelusky ◽  
Ian C. P. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Local Anesthetics ◽  
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study ◽  
Weakly Bound ◽  
Slow Exchange ◽  
H Nmr ◽  
Line Shapes ◽  
Acyl Chains ◽  
Nuclear Magnetic

The binding of the local anesthetics tetracaine and procaine with multilamellar dispersions of egg phosphatidylcholine has been studied by 2H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). The 2H-NMR line shapes of specifically deuterated local anesthetics are found to be very dependent on the attainment of a true equilibrium. The equilibrium could be most properly reached by the use of repeated freeze–thaw–vortex cycles. The data for tetracaine are consistent with the three-site exchange model proposed earlier. Tetracaine is in slow exchange between a strongly bound site and a weakly bound site and in fast exchange between the weakly bound site and free in solution. The slow exchange rate is estimated, from temperature and dilution studies, to be approximately 1.5 × 103 s−1 at pH 5.5 and slightly faster at pH 9.5. Comparisons of the quadrupole splittings with those seen for our earlier work in egg phosphatidylethanolamine suggest that the location of the strongly bound site in phosphatidylcholine is dependent on the anesthetic charge. This is in contrast to egg phosphatidylethanolamine, where molecular shapes appear to be the determining factor for the location of the anesthetic. Procaine bound very weakly to the model membranes, to yield only a broad resonance and no quadrupole splitting. It appears that procaine, unlike tetracaine, is not bound by the ordered acyl chains.

scholarly journals Study of the coordination of quinuclidine to a chiral zinc phthalocyanine dimer

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (08n11) ◽  
pp. 1224-1232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelson Giménez-Agulló ◽  
Gemma Aragay ◽  
José Ramón Galán-Mascarós ◽  
Pablo Ballester
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Exchange ◽  
Variable Temperature ◽  
Exchange Process ◽  
Zinc Phthalocyanine ◽  
Hydrogen Atoms ◽  
Dimerization Constant ◽  
H Nmr ◽  
Dimerization Process ◽  
Nmr Titrations ◽  
Millimolar Concentration

We attempted the calculation of an accurate equilibrium constant for the dimerization process of enantiomerically pure Zn-1 using UV-vis dilution experiments. At millimolar concentration Zn-1 is involved in a chemical exchange process between its monomeric and dimeric state that is slow on the 1H NMR timescale. We performed variable-temperature 1H NMR experiments in CDCl3 solution to determine the dimerization constant value at different temperatures and performed a van’t Hoff plot to derive the thermodynamic parameters of the process. The calculated thermodynamic data revealed that the dimerization process is entropy-driven and enthalpically opposed. We also probed the coordination of quinuclidine, 1-azabicyclo[2.2.2]octane, 2, to the Zn-1 using UV-vis and 1H NMR titrations in CDCl3 solution. At micromolar concentration the Zn-1 exclusively exists in solution as a monomer and forms a simple 1:1, [Formula: see text], complex with quinuclidine having a stability constant of [Formula: see text]([Formula: see text]) [Formula: see text] 106 M[Formula: see text]. On the other hand, the 1H NMR titrations carried out at 298 K and at millimolar concentration showed that Zn-1 was present in solution as the dimer and formed 1:2, [Formula: see text], and 2:2, [Formula: see text] complexes by coordination to 2. In addition, the 1:1 complex, [Formula: see text] showed a reduced dimerization constant compared to the uncoordinated parent monomer Zn-1. At high quinuclidine concentration, the 1:1 complex, [Formula: see text], derived from the coordinated dimer dissociation was also detected. The 1H NMR spectra of the titrations displayed separate signals for some hydrogen atoms of the Zn-phthalocyanine in each one of the four species. Remarkably, the chemical exchange processes involving free and bound quinuclidine in the monomeric and dimeric complexes showed different kinetics on the NMR timescale.

THE SHAPES OF PHOTOELECTRON SATELLITE SPECTRA

2002 ◽  
Vol 09 (02) ◽  
pp. 1209-1212 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. G. YARZHEMSKY ◽  
V. I. NEFEDOV ◽  
M. YA. AMUSIA ◽  
L. V. CHERNYSHEVA
Keyword(s):  
Line Shape ◽  
Shape Parameters ◽  
Line Shapes ◽  
Peak Structure ◽  
Experimental Line

Line shapes of photoionization satellites are theoretically investigated. Calculations were carried out for the satellite states 1s2s(3S)3s(2S) and 3s3p5(1P)4s(2P) of Ne 1s and Ar 3p vacancies, respectively, created in photoionization. Theory excellently reproduces experimental line shape parameters of the first satellite and predicts the two-peak structure of the second.

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