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Size-dependent light emission from mass-selected clusters

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The emission of photons in the visible wavelength range from mass-selected Ag+ n, Cu+ n, Pt+ n and Pd+ n () clusters is observed. Photons are detected 10-4 s after the cluster generation in a sputter source. The emission intensities display distinct variations with cluster size and material. The observations are interpreted in terms of the decay of metastable states which are excited during the high-energy sputtering process used for the generation of these clusters.

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  1. Institut de physique expérimentale, université de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland, , , , , , CH

    M.-H. Schaffner, F. Patthey, U. Heiz & W.-D. Schneider

  2. Département de physique de la matière condensée, université de Genève, 1211 Genève, Switzerland, , , , , , CH

    O. Kuffer

  3. Tetra Pak Romont SA, 1860 Romont, Switzerland, , , , , , CH

    H.-V. Roy & P. Fayet

  4. IBM Research Division, Zurich Research Laboratory, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland, , , , , , CH

    J.K. Gimzewski

  5. 5 Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen, 52056 Aachen, Germany, , , , , , DE

    R. Berndt

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  1. M.-H. Schaffner
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Received: 28 October 1997 / Revised: 5 January 1998 / Accepted: 30 January 1998

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Schaffner, MH., Patthey, F., Heiz, U. et al. Size-dependent light emission from mass-selected clusters. Eur. Phys. J. D 2, 79–82 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530050114

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