Vacuum ultraviolet electronic properties of liquids. Eighteen year progress report, November 1, 1968-January 31, 1987

Technical Report · Tue Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1986

OSTI ID:5496362

Painter, L R

The principal aim of this program has been to study the eletronic structure of liquids over a broad energy range, 2 to 25 eV. These studies basically consist of measuring the reflectance, transmittance, photoionization and photoemission of liquids in the vacuum ultraviolet spectral region as a function of angle of incidence and photon energy. Such measurements are analyzed to yield the optical and dielectric functions of the liquid as functions of photon energy. These functions describe electron motion in liquids as stimulated by nuclear radiation, visible and ultraviolet light, and charged particles. A knowledge of the interactions of radiation with molecular liquids has direct biological application in terms of understanding radiation damage to living material, to radiotherapy, to radiation dosimetry, to problems in cell biology, and to calculation of the actual degree of adhesive interactions between biological cells and between cells and artificial matter. Applications are made to radiation chemistry, upper atmospheric physics, and aerosol formation. 31 refs.

• Research Organization: Tennessee Univ., Knoxville (USA). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
• DOE Contract Number: FG05-86ER60415
• OSTI ID: 5496362
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/60415-2; ON: DE86014677
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE
EMISSION
EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION
FLUIDS
GAMMA RADIATION
IONIZATION
IONIZING RADIATIONS
LIQUIDS
OPTICAL PROPERTIES
PHOTOEMISSION
PHOTOIONIZATION
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
RADIATIONS
REFLECTIVITY
SECONDARY EMISSION
SPECTRA
SURFACE PROPERTIES
TRANSMISSION
ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION
ULTRAVIOLET SPECTRA
VISIBLE RADIATION