Chemical Physics Letters, Vol.442, No.4-6, 217-219, 2007
Stimulated Raman spectroscopy combined with vacuum ultraviolet photoionization: Application to jet-cooled methanol clusters as a new vibrational spectroscopic method for size-selected species in the gas phase
Stimulated Raman-vacuum ultraviolet-photoionization spectroscopy (SR-VUV-PIS) is developed for size-selected neutral molecular clusters in a supersonic beam, providing a new method with a wide applicability for systems without low-lying electronic chromophores. The method is demonstrated by observations of the CH stretching vibrations of bare methanol and the cluster species. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.