(Monitoring interfacial dynamics by pulsed laser techniques): (Annual report)

Technical Report · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:6977338

Richmond, G L

Our approach in these studies is to use Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) to monitor the response of the system at a known time delay following a fast perturbation such as a voltage pulse or photoexcitation. In the first experiments of this kind, we reported the success in performing these experiments using a 10 ns, 10 Hz YAG laser. By monitoring the SH light generated by the IR laser pulse at numerous delays after a potential step, we captured the complete transient response of the charging of the double layer after the perturbation. One drawback to these studies was that it took several hours to capture a single decay curves since each delay point required signal averaging at a repetition rate of 0.03 Hz. We alleviated this problem by setting up a 76 Hz, 100 psec YAG laser with photon counting equipment which enabled us to continuously monitor the SHG response to the applied voltage step. The adsorption and desorption of specifically and nonspecifically adsorbed anions on polycrystalline Ag electrodes biased within the limits of the ideally polarizable region (/minus/1.2 V to /minus/0.1 V vs. Ag/AgCl) was begun. The results demonstrate the utility of fast pulsed laser light as a continuous monitor of surface dynamics on the millisecond timescale using this time resolved SHG method. 5 refs.

• Research Organization: Oregon Univ., Eugene (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: FG06-86ER45273
• OSTI ID: 6977338
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/45273-2; ON: DE88009669
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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