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Highly efficient light harvesting of a Eu(iii) complex in a host–guest film by triplet sensitization. |
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Haruka Yoshino, Masaki Saigo, Kiyoshi Miyata, Ken Onda, Jenny Pirillo, Yuh Hijikata, Wataru Kosaka, Hitoshi Miyasaka,, Unprecedented highly efficient photoluminescence in a phosphorescent Ag(I) coordination polymer, Chemical Communications, 10.1039/D3CC00179B, 59, 4616-4619, 2023.03. |
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Luxia Cui, Hyuga Shinjo, Takafumi Ichiki, Koichi Deyama, Takunori Harada, Kohei Ishibashi, Takumi Ehara, Kiyoshi Miyata, Ken Onda, Yoshio Hisaeda, Toshikazu Ono, Highly Fluorescent Bipyrrole-Based Tetra-BF2 Flag-Hinge Chromophores: Achieving Multicolor and Circularly Polarized Luminescence., Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 10.1002/anie.202204358, e202204358, 2022.05, This study reports the facile syntheses of tetra-boron difluoride (tetra-BF2 ) complexes, flag-hinge-like molecules that exhibit intense green-to-orange luminescence in solution and yellow-to-red emission in the solid states. Single-crystal structure analysis and density functional theory calculations suggested a bent structure of this series of compounds. The complexes also exhibited excellent optical properties, with quantum yields reaching 100 % and a large Stokes shift. These properties were attributed to the altered bending angle of the molecule in the S1 excited state. As the rotational motion was suppressed around the 2,2'-bipyrrole axis, atropisomers with axial chirality were formed, which are optically resolvable into (R) and (S)-enantiomers through a chiral column. The atropisomers thus function as circularly polarized luminescent (CPL) materials, in which the color (green, green-yellow, and yellow) can be varied by controlling the aggregation state. This rational design of multi-BF2 complexes can potentially realize novel photofunctional materials.. |
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Masanori Uji, Naoyuki Harada, Nobuo Kimizuka, Masaki Saigo, Kiyoshi Miyata, Ken Onda, and Nobuhiro Yanai, Heavy metal-free visible-to-UV photon upconversion with over 20% efficiency sensitized by a ketocoumarin derivative, JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C, 10.1039/d1tc05526g, 10, 12, 2022.03. |
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Masaki Saigo, Yuushi Shimoda, Takumi Ehara, Tomohiro Ryu, Kiyoshi Miyata, and Ken Onda, Characterisation of Excited States in a Multiple-Resonance-Type Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Molecule Using Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy, Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. , 10.1246/bcsj.20210403, 95, 381-388, 2022.03. |
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Tomohiro Ishii, Kiyoshi Miyata, Masashi Mamada, Fatima Bencheikh, Fabrice Mathevet, Ken Onda, Stéphane Kéna-Cohen, and Chihaya Adachi, Low-Threshold Exciton-Polariton Condensation via Fast Polariton Relaxation in Organic Microcavities, ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS, 10.1002/adom.202102034, 10, 3, 2022.02. |
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Yasunori Matsui, Yudai Yokoyama, Takuya Ogaki, Kenta Ishiharaguchi, Akitsugu Niwa, Eisuke Ohta, Masaki Saigo, Kiyoshi Miyata, Ken Onda, Hiroyoshi Naito, Hiroshi Ikeda, Aggregation-induced Emission Active Thermally-activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials Possessing N-Heterocycle and Sulfonyl Groups, J. Mater. Chem. C, 10.1039/D1TC05196B, 10, 4607-4613, 2022.01. |
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Shinya Koshihara, Tadahiko Ishikawa, Yoichi Okimoto, Ken Onda, Ryo Fukaya, Masaki Hada, Yasuhiko Hayashi, Sumio Ishihara, Tadeusz Luty, Challenges for developing photo-induced phase transition (PIPT) systems: From classical (incoherent) to quantum (coherent) control of PIPT dynamics, PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF PHYSICS LETTERS, 10.1016/j.physrep.2021.10.003, 942, 1-61, 2022.01. |
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Tomohiro Ishii, Fatima Bencheikh, Sébastien Forget, Sébastien Chénais, Benoit Heinrich, David Kreher, Lydia Sosa Vargas, Kiyoshi Miyata, Ken Onda, Takashi Fujihara, Stéphane Kéna-Cohen, Fabrice Mathevet, and Chihaya Adachi, Enhanced Light-Matter Interaction and Polariton Relaxation by the Control of Molecular Orientation, ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS, 10.1002/adom.202101048, 9, 22, 2021.11. |
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Masaki Hada, Satoshi Ohmura, Tadahiko Ishikawa, Masaki Saigo, Naoya Keio, Wataru Yajima, Tatsuya Suzuki, Daisuke Urushihara, Kou Takubo, Yusuke Masaki, Makoto Kuwahara, Kenji Tsuruta, Yasuhiko Hayashi, Jiro Matsuo, Takayoshi Yokoya, Ken Onda, Fuyuki Shimojo, Muneaki Hase, Sumio Ishihara, Toru Asaka, Nobuyuki Abe, Taka-hisa Arima, Shin-ya Koshihara, Yoichi Okimoto, Photoinduced oxygen transport in cobalt double-perovskite crystal EuBaCo2O5.39, APPLIED MATERIALS TODAY, 10.1016/j.apmt.2021.101167, 24, 2021.09. |
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Raj Kumar Koninti, Kiyoshi Miyata, Masaki Saigo, Ken Onda, Achieving Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence from Benzophenone by Host-Guest Complexation, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C, 10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c04283, 125, 31, 17392-17399, 2021.08. |
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Kei Kamogawa, Yuushi Shimoda, Kiyoshi Miyata, Ken Onda, Yasuomi Yamazaki, Yusuke Tamaki, Osamu Ishitani, Mechanistic study of photocatalytic CO2 reduction using a Ru(II)-Re(I) supramolecular photocatalyst, CHEMICAL SCIENCE, 10.1039/d1sc02213j, 12, 28, 9682-9693, 2021.07. |
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Ryo Fukaya, Nao Yamaya, Tadahiko Ishikawa, Shin-ya Koshihara, Yoichi Okimoto, Ken Onda, Akira Isayama, Takao Sasagawa, Kazumasa Horigane, Picosecond dynamics in layered cobalt perovskites studied by time-resolved Raman spectroscopy, Comptes Rendus. Physique, 10.5802/crphys.35, 22, S2, 1-8, 2021.01. |
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Yuushi Shimoda, Kiyoshi Miyata, Masaki Saigo, Youichi Tsuchiya, Chihaya Adachi, Ken Onda, Intramolecular-rotation driven triplet-to-singlet upconversion and fluctuation induced fluorescence activation in linearly connected donor–acceptor molecules, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 10.1063/5.0029608, 153, 20, 204702-204702, 2020.11. |
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Kiyoshi Miyata, Ryota Nagaoka, Masaki Hada, Takanori Tanaka, Ryuji Mishima, Taihei Kuroda, Sota Sueta, Takumi Iida, Yoshifumi Yamashita, Takeshi Nishikawa, Kenji Tsuruta, Yasuhiko Hayashi, Ken Onda, Toshihiko Kiwa, Takashi Teranishi, Liquid-like dielectric response is an origin of long polaron lifetime exceeding 10 μs in lead bromide perovskites, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 10.1063/1.5127993, 152, 8, 084704-084704, 2020.02. |
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Kinetics and Mechanism of Intramolecular Electron Transfer in Ru(II)-Re(I) Supramolecular CO2-Reduction Photocatalysts: Effects of Bridging Ligands. |
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Masaki Hada, Kiyoshi Miyata, Satoshi Ohmura, Yusuke Arashida, Kohei Ichiyanagi, Ikufumi Katayama, Takayuki Suzuki, Wang Chen, Shota Mizote, Takayoshi Sawa, Takayoshi Yokoya, Toshio Seki, Jiro Matsuo, Tomoharu Tokunaga, Chihiro Itoh, Kenji Tsuruta, Ryo Fukaya, Shunsuke Nozawa, Shin-ichi Adachi, Jun Takeda, Ken Onda, Shin-ya Koshihara, Yasuhiko Hayashi, Yuta Nishina, Selective Reduction Mechanism of Graphene Oxide Driven by the Photon Mode versus the Thermal Mode, ACS NANO, 10.1021/acsnano.9b03060, 13, 9, 10103-10112, 2019.09, A two-dimensional nanocarbon, graphene, has attracted substantial interest due to its excellent properties. The reduction of graphene oxide (GO) has been investigated for the mass production of graphene used in practical applications. Different reduction processes produce different properties in graphene, affecting the performance of the final materials or devices. Therefore, an understanding of the mechanisms of GO reduction is important for controlling the properties of functional two-dimensional systems. Here, we determined the average structure of reduced GO prepared via heating and photoexcitation and clearly distinguished their reduction mechanisms using Graphene oxide ultrafast time-resolved electron diffraction, time-resolved infrared vibrational spectroscopy, and time-dependent density functional theory calculations. The oxygen atoms of epoxy groups are selectively removed from the basal plane of GO by photoexcitation (photon mode), in stark contrast to the behavior observed for the thermal reduction of hydroxyl and epoxy groups (thermal mode). The difference originates from the selective excitation of epoxy bonds via an electronic transition due to their antibonding character. This work will enable the preparation of the optimum GO for the intended applications and expands the application scope of two-dimensional systems.. |
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Keiki Fukumoto, Ayse Seyhan, Ken Onda, Shunri Oda, Shin-ya Koshihara, Comparison of picosecond electron dynamics in isolated and clustered Si quantum dots deposited on a semiconductor surface, APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 10.1063/1.5097611, 115, 5, 2019.07, Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have been widely used in various optoelectronic devices. Extensive studies have been devoted to the application of Si QDs with the aim of realizing various optoelectronic functions based on the modified energy band structure in QDs compared with bulk crystals. Therefore, it is necessary to be able to directly probe the carrier dynamics in single Si QDs of nanoscale dimensions deposited on a SiO2/Si surface, where the environment is compatible with Si-based semiconductor devices. This letter reports the observation and comparison of the ultrafast electron dynamics just after the photoexcitation of isolated and clustered Si QDs on a SiO2/Si surface using time-resolved photoemission electron microscopy with spatial and temporal resolutions of 50nm and 100fs, respectively. The detailed structure of QDs was confirmed directly by scanning electron microscopy observations. The results obtained in the present study show that the carrier lifetime in isolated QDs is shorter than that in clustered QDs. This is consistent with the electron-hole interaction in nanospace, significantly modifying the carrier recombination rates. Published under license by AIP Publishing.. |
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Suppression of Structural Change upon S-1-T-1 Conversion Assists the Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Process in Carbazole-Benzonitrile Derivatives. |
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Ken Onda, Kei Ohkubo, Yasuomi Yamazaki, Kazuhide Koike, Sei'ichi Tanaka, Osamu Ishitani, Direct Measurement of Intramolecular Electron Transfer in a Series of Artificial Photosynthesis Processes, XXI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA 2018 (UP 2018), 10.1051/epjconf/201920509037, 205, 2019.04, We have directly determined the intramolecular electron transfer rate and revealed its mechanism in supramolecular complexes during CO2 photoreduction by time-resolved infrared spectroscopic measurements over a wide temporal range.. |
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Optical Study of Electronic Structure and Photoinduced Dynamics in the Organic Alloy System [(EDO-TTF)(0.89)(MeEDO-TTF)(0.11)](2)PF6. |
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Kazuhide Koike, David C. Grills, Yusuke Tamaki, Etsuko Fujita, Kei Okubo, Yasuomi Yamazaki, Masaki Saigo, Tatsuhiko Mukuta, Ken Onda, Osamu Ishitani, Investigation of excited state, reductive quenching, and intramolecular electron transfer of Ru(II)-Re(i) supramolecular photocatalysts for CO2 reduction using time-resolved IR measurements, Chemical Science, 10.1039/c7sc05338j, 9, 11, 2961-2974, 2018.06, Supramolecular photocatalysts in which Ru(ii) photosensitizer and Re(i) catalyst units are connected to each other by an ethylene linker are among the best known, most effective and durable photocatalytic systems for CO2 reduction. In this paper we report, for the first time, time-resolved infrared (TRIR) spectra of three of these binuclear complexes to uncover why the catalysts function so efficiently. Selective excitation of the Ru unit with a 532 nm laser pulse induces slow intramolecular electron transfer from the 3MLCT excited state of the Ru unit to the Re unit, with rate constants of (1.0-1.1) × 104 s-1 as a major component and (3.5-4.3) × 106 s-1 as a minor component, in acetonitrile. The produced charge-separated state has a long lifetime, with charge recombination rate constants of only (6.5-8.4) × 104 s-1. Thus, although it has a large driving force (-ΔG0CR ∼ 2.6 eV), this process is in the Marcus inverted region. On the other hand, in the presence of 1-benzyl-1,4-dihydronicotinamide (BNAH), reductive quenching of the excited Ru unit proceeds much faster (kq[BNAH (0.2 M)] = (3.5-3.8) × 106 s-1) than the abovementioned intramolecular oxidative quenching, producing the one-electron-reduced species (OERS) of the Ru unit. Nanosecond TRIR data clearly show that intramolecular electron transfer from the OERS of the Ru unit to the Re unit (kET >
2 × 107 s-1) is much faster than from the excited state of the Ru unit, and that it is also faster than the reductive quenching process of the excited Ru unit by BNAH. To measure the exact value of kET, picosecond TRIR spectroscopy and a stronger reductant were used. Thus, in the case of the binuclear complex with tri(p-fluorophenyl)phosphine ligands (RuRe(FPh)), for which intramolecular electron transfer is expected to be the fastest among the three binuclear complexes, in the presence of 1,3-dimethyl-2-phenyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-benzo[d]imidazole (BIH), kET was measured as kET = (1.4 ± 0.1) × 109 s-1. This clearly shows that intramolecular electron transfer in these RuRe binuclear supramolecular photocatalysts is not the rate-determining process in the photocatalytic reduction of CO2, which is one of the main reasons why they work so efficiently.. |
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Novel techniques for observing structural dynamics of photoresponsive liquid crystals
© 2018 Journal of Visualized Experiments. We discuss in this article the experimental measurements of the molecules in liquid crystal (LC) phase using the time-resolved infrared (IR) vibrational spectroscopy and time-resolved electron diffraction. Liquid crystal phase is an important state of matter that exists between the solid and liquid phases and it is common in natural systems as well as in organic electronics. Liquid crystals are orientationally ordered but loosely packed, and therefore, the internal conformations and alignments of the molecular components of LCs can be modified by external stimuli. Although advanced time-resolved diffraction techniques have revealed picosecond-scale molecular dynamics of single crystals and polycrystals, direct observations of packing structures and ultrafast dynamics of soft materials have been hampered by blurry diffraction patterns. Here, we report time-resolved IR vibrational spectroscopy and electron diffractometry to acquire ultrafast snapshots of a columnar LC material bearing a photoactive core moiety. Differential-detection analyses of the combination of time-resolved IR vibrational spectroscopy and electron diffraction are powerful tools for characterizing structures and photoinduced dynamics of soft materials.. |
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Masaki Hada, Shohei Saito, Sei'ichi Tanaka, Ryuma Sato, Masahiko Yoshimura, Kazuhiro Mouri, Kyohei Matsuo, Shigehiro Yamaguchi, Mitsuo Hara, Yasuhiko Hayashi, Fynn Roehricht, Rainer Herges, Yasuteru Shigeta, Ken Onda, R. J. Dwayne Miller, Structural Monitoring of the Onset of Excited-State Aromaticity in a Liquid Crystal Phase, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 10.1021/jacs.7b08021, 139, 44, 15792-15800, 2017.11, Aromaticity of photoexcited molecules is an important concept in organic chemistry. Its theory, Baird's rule for triplet aromaticity since 1972 gives the rationale of photoinduced conformational changes and photochemical reactivities of cyclic pi-conjugated systems. However, it is still challenging to monitor the dynamic structural change induced by the excited-state aromaticity, particularly in condensed materials. Here we report direct structural observation of a molecular motion and a subsequent packing deformation accompanied by the excited-state aromaticity. Photoactive liquid crystal (LC) molecules featuring a pi-expanded cyclooctatetraene core unit are orientationally ordered but loosely packed in a columnar LC phase, and therefore a photoinduced conformational planarization by the excited-state aromaticity has been successfully observed by time-resolved electron diffractometry and vibrational spectroscopy. The structural change took place in the vicinity of excited molecules, producing a twisted stacking structure. A nanoscale torque driven by the excited-state aromaticity can be used as the working mechanism of new photoresponsive materials.. |
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Keiki Fukumoto, Mohamed Boutchich, Hakim Arezki, Ken Sakurai, Daniela Di Felice, Yannick J. Dappe, Ken Onda, Shin-ya Koshihara, Ultrafast electron dynamics in twisted graphene by femtosecond photoemission electron microscopy, CARBON, 10.1016/j.carbon.2017.08.032, 124, 49-56, 2017.11, Twisted multilayer graphene (tMLG) present electronic properties that depend on the relative misalignment and interaction between layers. These interactions affect the band structures and the carrier dynamics upon photonic excitation. These structures are being under scrutiny and recent work high-lighted the strong potential they offer for optoelectronic devices. However, the ultrafast carrier dynamics is still at an early stage, often due to the instrumental limitations. Here, we investigated the carrier dynamics by femtosecond photoemission electron microscopy of chemical vapor deposited (CVD) twisted graphene super lattices presenting different interlayer rotation angles. The photo-generated carrier lifetimes in these selected regions show a longer lifetime compared to monolayer graphene (1 ML). This observation is assigned to the presence of band gap and sub bands in the trilayer graphene and has been supported by DFT calculations. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.. |
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Hada, Masaki, Saito, Shohei, Tanaka, Sei'ichi, Sato, Ryuma, Yoshimura, Masahiko, Mouri, Kazuhiro, Matsuo, Kyohei, Yamaguchi, Shigehiro, Hara, Mitsuo, Hayashi, Yasuhiko, Röhricht, Fynn, Herges, Rainer, Shigeta, Yasuteru, Onda, Ken, Miller, R J Dwayne, Structural Monitoring of the Onset of Excited-State Aromaticity in a Liquid Crystal Phase, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 139, 15792-15800, 2017.10. |
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Tatsuhiko Mukuta, Peter V. Simpson, Jamila G. Vaughan, Brian W. Skelton, Stefano Stagni, Massimiliano Massi, Kazuhide Koike, Osamu Ishitani, Ken Onda, Photochemical Processes in a Rhenium(I) Tricarbonyl N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complex Studied by Time-Resolved Measurements, INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b02936, 56, 6, 3404-3413, 2017.03, We carried out time-resolved infrared (TR-IR) and emission lifetime measurements on a Re(I) carbonyl complex having an N-heterocyclic carbene ligand, namely, far[Re(CO)(3)(PylmPh)Br], under photochemically reactive (in solution in acetonitrile) and nonreactive (in solution in dichloromethane) conditions to investigate the mechanism of photochemical ligand substitution reactions. The TR-IR measurements revealed that no reaction occurs on a picosecond time scale and the cationic product, namely, fac[Re(CO)(3)(PyImPh)(MeCN)(+), is produced on a nanosecond time scale only in solution in acetonitrile, which indicates that the reaction proceeds thermally from the excited state. Because no other products were observed by TR-IR, we concluded that this reactions. The measurements of the temperature-dependent emission lifetime and analysis using transition-state theory revealed that the photochemical substitution reaction proceeds from a metal-to-ligand charge transfer excited state, the structure of which allows the potential coordination of a solvent molecule. Thus, the coordinating capacity of the solvent determines whether the reaction proceeds or not. This mechanism is different from those of photochemical reactions of other types of Re(I) carbonyl complexes owing to the unique characteristics of the carbene ligand.. |
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Tatsuhiko Mukuta, Peter V. Simpson, Jamila G. Vaughan, Brian W. Skelton, Stefano Stagni, Massimiliano Massi, Kazuhide Koike, Osamu Ishitani, Ken Onda, Photochemical Processes in a Rhenium(I) Tricarbonyl N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complex Studied by Time-Resolved Measurements, INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b02936, 56, 6, 3404-3413, 2017.03, We carried out time-resolved infrared (TR-IR) and emission lifetime measurements on a Re(I) carbonyl complex having an N-heterocyclic carbene ligand, namely, far[Re(CO)(3)(PylmPh)Br], under photochemically reactive (in solution in acetonitrile) and nonreactive (in solution in dichloromethane) conditions to investigate the mechanism of photochemical ligand substitution reactions. The TR-IR measurements revealed that no reaction occurs on a picosecond time scale and the cationic product, namely, fac[Re(CO)(3)(PyImPh)(MeCN)(+), is produced on a nanosecond time scale only in solution in acetonitrile, which indicates that the reaction proceeds thermally from the excited state. Because no other products were observed by TR-IR, we concluded that this reactions. The measurements of the temperature-dependent emission lifetime and analysis using transition-state theory revealed that the photochemical substitution reaction proceeds from a metal-to-ligand charge transfer excited state, the structure of which allows the potential coordination of a solvent molecule. Thus, the coordinating capacity of the solvent determines whether the reaction proceeds or not. This mechanism is different from those of photochemical reactions of other types of Re(I) carbonyl complexes owing to the unique characteristics of the carbene ligand.. |
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Mitsuyuki Kaneta, Takumu Honda, Ken Onda, Mina Han, Repeated photoswitching performance of azobenzenes adsorbed on gold surfaces: a balance between space, intermolecular interactions, and phase separation, NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY, 10.1039/c6nj03121h, 41, 4, 1827-1833, 2017.02, Single-component azobenzene thiol (Me-SH) and two-component azobenzene dodecyl disulfide (Me-SS) have been used to understand how "space'' necessary for trans cis photoisomerization, "intermolecular interactions'' and "phase separation'' affects the repeated photoswitching ability of azobenzene units on flat gold surfaces. Me-SH self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) with available space and p-p stacking interactions between photoswitchable azobenzene units showed similar to 51% of the first trans-to-cis photoisomerization and good photoswitching performance in response to alternating irradiation with UV and visible light. On the other hand, our absorption spectral data and AFM observations suggest that each chemical component of Me-SS did not move continuously on a flat gold surface and was almost fixed after partially phase-separated SAM formation. The first trans- to-cis photoconversion of the Me-SS SAMs with additional free space arising from phase separation reached as high as 75 +/- 3%. Repeated irradiation of the Me-SS SAMs with UV and visible light seems to cause (i) out-of-plane (homeotropic and/or oblique) reorientation and/or (ii) random arrangements of mixed trans-and cis-azobenzenes. Consequently, the initial excellent photoswitching ability declined gradually as the number of repeated irradiations increased. The observations indicate that a balance between space, intermolecular interactions, and phase separation plays an important role in forming repeatedly photoswitchable monolayers.. |
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Structural deformation of a ring-shaped Re(I) diimine dinuclear complex in the excited state. |
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Masaki Hada, Katsura Norimatsu, Sei'ichi Tanaka, Sercan Keskin, Tetsuya Tsuruta, Kyushiro Igarashi, Tadahiko Ishikawa, Yosuke Kayanuma, R. J. Dwayne Miller, Ken Onda, Takao Sasagawa, Shin-ya Koshihara, Kazutaka G. Nakamura, Bandgap modulation in photoexcited topological insulator Bi2Te3 via atomic displacements, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 10.1063/1.4955188, 145, 2, 9, 2016.07, The atomic and electronic dynamics in the topological insulator (TI) Bi2Te3 under strong photoexcitation were characterized with time-resolved electron diffraction and time-resolved mid-infrared spectroscopy. Three-dimensional TIs characterized as bulk insulators with an electronic conduction surface band have shown a variety of exotic responses in terms of electronic transport when observed under conditions of applied pressure, magnetic field, or circularly polarized light. However, the atomic motions and their correlation between electronic systems in TIs under strong photoexcitation have not been explored. The artificial and transient modification of the electronic structures in TIs via photoinduced atomic motions represents a novel mechanism for providing a comparable level of bandgap control. The results of time-domain crystallography indicate that photoexcitation induces two-step atomic motions: first bismuth and then tellurium center-symmetric displacements. These atomic motions in Bi2Te3 trigger 10% bulk bandgap narrowing, which is consistent with the time-resolved mid-infrared spectroscopy results. Published by AIP Publishing.. |
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Tatsuhiko Mukuta, Sei'ichi Tanaka, Akiko Inagaki, Shin-ya Koshihara, Ken Onda, Direct Observation of the Triplet Metal-Centered State in [Ru(bpy)(3)](2+) Using Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy, CHEMISTRYSELECT, 10.1002/slct.201600747, 1, 11, 2802-2807, 2016.07, [Ru(bpy)(3)](2+) is well-known as a prototype for the Ru(II) complexes used in a wide variety of photofunctional materials. The triplet metal-centered ((MC)-M-3) state is important in this complex, since it dominates the phosphorescence lifetime and photoreaction processes. Despite this, the (MC)-M-3 state has not yet been observed by spectroscopic methods. In the present study, we demonstrated that time-resolved infrared vibrational spectroscopy enables observations of the (MC)-M-3 state. A vibrational band at 1599 cm(-1) was found to exhibit unique temporal behavior that differed from that of other bands assignable to the triplet metal-to-ligand charge-transfer ((MLCT)-M-3) state. This unique behavior was assessed under various experimental conditions and it was concluded that the band arises from the short-term population (similar to 23 ps) of the (MC)-M-3 state during relaxation to the bottom of the (MLCT)-M-3 state. These results agree with [Fe(bpy)(3)](2+) spectra, which show that the (MC)-M-5 state is the most stable excited state.. |
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Ultrafast snapshots of the molecules twisting in liquid crystal state. |
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Direct observations of the photoinduced change in dimerization in K-TCNQ. |
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Sei'ichi Tanaka, Kosuke Takahashi, Masanari Hirahara, Masayuki Yagi, Ken Onda, Characterization of the excited states of distal- and proximal-[Ru(tpy)(pynp)OH2](2+) in aqueous solution using time-resolved infrared spectroscopy, JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY A-CHEMISTRY, 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2015.06.018, 313, 87-98, 2015.12, The quasi-stable excited states of distal- and proximaliRu(tpy)(pynp)OH2](2+) (tpy = 2,2',6',2 ''-terpyridine, pynp = 2-(2-pyridy1)-1,8-naphthyridine), which exhibits unique irreversible photoisomerization, were assessed in aqueous solution using time-resolved infrared vibrational spectroscopy and quantum chemical calculations. Transient vibrational spectra from 1300 to 1650 cm(-1) were acquired 120 and 2 Ps after photoexcitation with a 400 nm pulse for the distal- and proximal-isomers, respectively. The calculated vibrational spectra assuming the lowest triplet states were in good agreement with the experimentally observed spectra, and the vibrational bands are assigned to normal vibrational modes obtained from calculations. The lifetimes of the excited state were determined to be 9.7 ns and 6.4 ps for the distal- and proximal-isomers, respectively. Based on these results, we determined various characteristic features of these excited states. Despite the large difference in lifetime, both isomers were assigned to the triplet metal-to-ligand charge transfer ((MLCT)-M-3) state and there was almost no difference in the positions of the atoms directly coordinated to the Ru atom. The dissimilarity between the isomers is that the pynp ligands are significantly distorted in the case of the distal-isomer while there is hydrogen bonding between the pynp and OH2 ligands in the proximal-isomer. The strong interaction between the low lying (MLCT)-M-3 state and the ground state presumably causes the very short lifetime and the forbidden photoisomerization of the proximal-isomer, whereas photoisomerization occurs via the thermally populated metal centered ((MC)-M-3) state from the high-lying (MLCT)-M-3 state in the case of the distalisomer. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.. |
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Tadahiko Ishikawa, Stuart A. Hayes, Sercan Keskin, Gaston Corthey, Masaki Hada, Kostyantyn Pichugin, Alexander Marx, Julian Hirscht, Kenta Shionuma, Ken Onda, Yoichi Okimoto, Shin-ya Koshihara, Takashi Yamamoto, Hengbo Cui, Mitsushiro Nomura, Yugo Oshima, Majed Abdel-Jawad, Reizo Kato, R. J. Dwayne Miller, Direct observation of collective modes coupled to molecular orbital-driven charge transfer, SCIENCE, 10.1126/science.aab3480, 350, 6267, 1501-1505, 2015.12, Correlated electron systems can undergo ultrafast photoinduced phase transitions involving concerted transformations of electronic and lattice structure. Understanding these phenomena requires identifying the key structural modes that couple to the electronic states. We report the ultrafast photoresponse of the molecular crystal Me4P[Pt(dmit)(2)](2), which exhibits a photoinduced charge transfer similar to transitions between thermally accessible states, and demonstrate how femtosecond electron diffraction can be applied to directly observe the associated molecular motions. Even for such a complex system, the key large-amplitude modes can be identified by eye and involve a dimer expansion and a librational mode. The dynamics are consistent with the time-resolved optical study, revealing how the electronic, molecular, and lattice structures together facilitate ultrafast switching of the state.. |
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Ken Onda, Observation of ultrafast photoinduced dynamics in strongly correlated organic materials, Springer Series in Chemical Physics, 10.1007/978-3-319-23657-5_9, 112, 179-201, 2015.11. |
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Keiki Fukumoto, Yuki Yamada, Shin-ya Koshihara, Ken Onda, Lifetimes of photogenerated electrons on a GaAs surface affected by nanostructural defects, APPLIED PHYSICS EXPRESS, 10.7567/APEX.8.101201, 8, 10, 2015.10, The recombination dynamics of photogenerated carriers on temporal and spatial scales of 100 fs and 100 nm, respectively, on an inhomogeneous GaAs surface with structural defects was investigated using time-resolved photoemission electron microscopy with femtosecond laser pulses. The observed photocarrier lifetimes (T) ranged from subpicoseconds to picoseconds at isolated structural defects and were inversely proportional to the photoemission intensity at each defect. We concluded that T corresponds to the carrier trapping time to midgap defect states and estimated the density of the midgap states at each defect on the basis of the relation between t and the photoemission intensity. (C) 2015 The Japan Society of Applied Physics. |
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R. Fukaya, Y. Okimoto, M. Kunitomo, K. Onda, T. Ishikawa, S. Koshihara, H. Hashimoto, S. Ishihara, A. Isayama, H. Yui, T. Sasagawa, Ultrafast electronic state conversion at room temperature utilizing hidden state in cuprate ladder system, NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 10.1038/ncomms9519, 6, 2015.10, Photo-control of material properties on femto- (10(-15)) and pico- (10(-12)) second timescales at room temperature has been a long-sought goal of materials science. Here we demonstrate a unique ultrafast conversion between the metallic and insulating state and the emergence of a hidden insulating state by tuning the carrier coherence in a wide temperature range in the two-leg ladder superconductor Sr14-xCaxCu24O41 through femtosecond time-resolved reflection spectroscopy. We also propose a theoretical scenario that can explain the experimental results. The calculations indicate that the holes injected by the ultrashort light reduce the coherence among the inherent hole pairs and result in suppression of conductivity, which is opposite to the conventional photocarrier-doping mechanism. By using trains of ultrashort laser pulses, we successively tune the carrier coherence to within 1 picosecond. Control of hole-pair coherence is shown to be a realistic strategy for tuning the electronic state on ultrafast timescales at room temperature.. |
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Tsugumi Umanodan, Sei'ichi Tanaka, Suguru Naruse, Tadahiko Ishikawa, Ken Onda, Shin-ya Koshihara, Sachio Horiuchi, Yoichi Okimoto, Different Time-Scale Relaxation Dynamics in Organic Supramolecular Ferroelectrics Studied by Linear and Nonlinear Spectroscopy, JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN, 10.7566/JPSJ.84.073707, 84, 7, 2015.07, Time-resolved linear and nonlinear optical responses were investigated in an organic supramolecular ferroelectric material composed of protonated 2,3-di(2-pyridinyl)pyrazine (H-dppz) and deprotonated chloranilic acid (Hca). We irradiated nanosecond laser pulses (lambda = 532 nm) on the crystal, pumped the intramolecular excitation of the Hca molecule, and observed a clear redshift of the molecular vibrational modes of C=O and C-O- just after the photoexcitation. Each softened mode gradually relaxed on different time scales, indicating that the electrons of the Hca molecules were redistributed after the photoexcitation. By the same excitation, a large suppression of the second-harmonic (SH) intensity was observed, driven by the macroscopic disordering of the transferred protons. The decay time of the SH intensity was longer than those of the vibrational modes, suggesting that the microscopic vibrations and macroscopic ferroelectricity have dynamics on different time scales.. |
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Ken Onda, Tatsuhiko Mukuta, Sei'ichi Tanaka, Kei Murata, Akiko Inagaki, Observation of the Dark State in Ruthenium Complexes Using Femtosecond Infrared Vibrational Spectroscopy, ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA XIX, 10.1007/978-3-319-13242-6_116, 162, 475-478, 2015.02. |
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K. Fukumoto, Y. Yamada, T. Matsuki, K. Onda, T. Noguchi, R. Mizokuchi, S. Oda, S. Koshihara, Visualization of Ultrafast Electron Dynamics Using Time-Resolved Photoemission Electron Microscopy, ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA XIX, 10.1007/978-3-319-13242-6_82, 162, 337-340, 2015.02. |
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Ken Onda, Hideki Yamochi, Shin-ya Koshihara, Diverse Photoinduced Dynamics in an Organic Charge-Transfer Complex Having Strong Electron-Phonon Interactions, ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH, 10.1021/ar500257b, 47, 12, 3494-3503, 2014.12, Conspectus Phenomena that occur in nonequilibrium states created by photoexcitation differ qualitatively from those that occur at thermal equilibrium, and various physical theories developed for thermal equilibrium states can hardly be applied to such phenomena. Recently it has been realized that understanding phenomena in nonequilibrium states in solids is important for photoenergy usage and ultrafast computing. Consequently, much effort has been devoted to revealing such phenomena by developing various ultrafast observation techniques and theories applicable to nonequilibrium states. This Account describes our recent studies of diverse photoinduced dynamics in a strongly correlated organic solid using various ultrafast techniques. Solids in which the electronic behavior is affected by Coulomb interactions between electrons are designated as strongly correlated materials and are known to exhibit unique physical properties even at thermal equilibrium. Among them, many organic charge-transfer (CT) complexes have low dimensionality and flexibility in addition to strong correlations; thus, their physical properties change sensitively in response to changes in pressure or electric field. Photoexcitation is also expected to drastically change their physical properties and would be useful for ultrafast photoswitching devices. However, in nonequilibrium states, the complicated dynamics due to these characteristics prevents us from understanding and using these materials for photonic devices. The CT complex (EDO-TTF)(2)PF6 (EDO-TTF = 4,5-ethylenedioxytetrathiafulvalene) exhibits unique photoinduced dynamics due to strong electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions. We have performed detailed studies of the dynamics of this complex using transient electronic spectroscopy at the 10 and 100 fs time scales. These studies include transient vibrational spectroscopy, which is sensitive to the charges and structures of constituent molecules, and transient electron diffraction, which provides direct information on the crystal structure. Photoexcitation of the charge-ordered low-temperature phase of (EDO-TTF)(2)PF6 creates a new photoinduced phase over 40 fs via the Franck-Condon state, in which electrons and vibrations are coherently and strongly coupled. This new photoinduced phase is assigned to an insulator-like state in which the charge order differs from that of the initial state. In the photoinduced phase, translations of component molecules proceed before the rearrangements of intramolecular conformations. Subsequently, the charge order and structure gradually approach those of the high-temperature phase over 100 ps. This unusual two-step photoinduced phase transition presumably originates from steric effects due to the bent EDO-TTF as well as strong electron-lattice interactions.. |
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Keiki Fukumoto, Ken Onda, Yuki Yamada, Takashi Matsuki, Tatsuhiko Mukuta, Sei-ichi Tanaka, Shin-ya Koshihara, Femtosecond time-resolved photoemission electron microscopy for spatiotemporal imaging of photogenerated carrier dynamics in semiconductors, REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS, 10.1063/1.4893484, 85, 8, 2014.08, We constructed an instrument for time-resolved photoemission electron microscopy (TR-PEEM) utilizing femtosecond (fs) laser pulses to visualize the dynamics of photogenerated electrons in semiconductors on ultrasmall and ultrafast scales. The spatial distribution of the excited electrons and their relaxation and/or recombination processes were imaged by the proposed TR-PEEM method with a spatial resolution about 100 nm and an ultrafast temporal resolution defined by the cross-correlation of the fs laser pulses (240 fs). A direct observation of the dynamical behavior of electrons on higher resistivity samples, such as semiconductors, by TR-PEEM has still been facing difficulties because of space and/or sample charging effects originating from the high photon flux of the ultrashort pulsed laser utilized for the photoemission process. Here, a regenerative amplified fs laser with a widely tunable repetition rate has been utilized, and with careful optimization of laser parameters, such as fluence and repetition rate, and consideration for carrier lifetimes, the electron dynamics in semiconductors were visualized. For demonstrating our newly developed TR-PEEM method, the photogenerated carrier lifetimes around a nanoscale defect on a GaAs surface were observed. The obtained lifetimes were on a sub-picosecond time scale, which is much shorter than the lifetimes of carriers observed in the non-defective surrounding regions. Our findings are consistent with the fact that structural defects induce mid-gap states in the forbidden band, and that the electrons captured in these states promptly relax into the ground state. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.. |
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Yoshitaka Matsubara, Sho Ogihara, Jiro Itatani, Nobuya Maeshima, Kenji Yonemitsu, Tadahiko Ishikawa, Yoichi Okimoto, Shin-ya Koshihara, Takaaki Hiramatsu, Yoshiaki Nakano, Hideki Yamochi, Gunzi Saito, Ken Onda, Coherent dynamics of photoinduced phase formation in a strongly correlated organic crystal, PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 10.1103/PhysRevB.89.161102, 89, 16, 2014.04, The photoinduced phase formation in a strongly correlated crystal (EDO-TTF)(2)PF6 (EDO-TTF: 4,5-ethylenedioxytetrathiafulvalene) is investigated using a 12 fs laser pulse. The formation time is determined as 40 fs with observation of coherence of electron-phonon coupled excited states prior to formation. The temperature-independent dephasing time is determined as similar to 22 fs up to 180 K and the frequency of phonon oscillation is similar to 38 THz, corresponding to the intramolecular vibrations in EDO-TTF. The phase formation is coherently controlled by relative-phase-controlled two-pulse excitation.. |
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Tatsuhiko Mukuta, Naoto Fukazawa, Kei Murata, Akiko Inagaki, Munetaka Akita, Sei'ichi Tanaka, Shin-ya Koshihara, Ken Onda, Infrared Vibrational Spectroscopy of [Ru(bpy)(2)(bpm)](2+) and [Ru(bpy)(3)](2+) in the Excited Triplet State, INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, 10.1021/ic402474t, 53, 5, 2481-2490, 2014.03, This work involved a detailed investigation into the infrared vibrational spectra of ruthenium polypyridyl complexes, specifically heteroleptic [Ru(bpy)(2)(bpm)](2+) (bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine and bpm = 2,2'-bipyrimidine) and homoleptic [Ru(bpy)(3)](2+), in the excited triplet state. Transient spectra were acquired 500 ps after photoexcitation, corresponding to the vibrational ground state of the excited triplet state, using time-resolved infrared spectroscopy. We assigned the observed bands to specific ligands in [Ru(bpy)(2)(bpm)](2+) based on the results of deuterium substitution and identified the corresponding normal vibrational modes using quantum-chemical calculations. Through this process, the more complex vibrational bands of [Ru(bpy)(3)](2+) were assigned to normal vibrational modes. The results are in good agreement with the model in which excited electrons are localized on a single ligand. We also found that the vibrational bands of both complexes associated with the ligands on which electrons are little localized appear at approximately 1317 and 1608 cm(-1). These assignments should allow the study of the reaction dynamics of various photofunctional systems including ruthenium polypyridyl complexes.. |
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Laboratory Guide : Development of a table-top femtosecond time-resolved electron diffraction system and photoinduced structural phase transition. |
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Keiki Fukumoto, Yuki Yamada, Ken Onda, Shin-ya Koshihara, Direct imaging of electron recombination and transport on a semiconductor surface by femtosecond time-resolved photoemission electron microscopy, APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 10.1063/1.4864279, 104, 5, 2014.02, Much effort has been devoted to the development of techniques to probe carrier dynamics, which govern many semiconductor device characteristics. We report direct imaging of electron dynamics on semiconductor surfaces by time-resolved photoemission electron microscopy using femtosecond laser pulses. The experiments utilized a variable-repetition-rate femtosecond laser system to suppress sample charging problems. The recombination of photogenerated electrons and the lateral motion of the electrons driven by an external electric field on a GaAs surface were visualized. The mobility was estimated from a linear relationship between the drift velocity and the potential gradient. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.. |
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Hirokazu Oda, Ken Onda, Masaru Nakagawa, Photochemical grafting reactions of a benzophenone-containing alkanethiol monolayer on au with deuterated polystyrene, Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 10.1246/bcsj.20130137, 86, 9, 1035-1040, 2013.09. |
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Ryo Fukaya, Yoichi Okimoto, Miyako Kunitomo, Tadahiko Ishikawa, Ken Onda, Shin-Ya Koshihara, Akira Isayama, Takao Sasagawa, Unconventional photonic change of charge-density-wave phase in two-leg ladder cuprate Sr14Cu24O41, Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 10.7566/JPSJ.82.083707, 82, 8, 2013.08, The photoinduced transition from the charge-density-wave (CDW) phase to the metallic phase in low-dimensional ladder-type cuprate Sr14Cu 24O41 was investigated in terms of femtosecond time-resolved reflection spectroscopy. Following the melting of the CDW order just after photoexcitation, a Drude-like metallic state was formed with a large optical response and maintained for more than 50 ps. The Drude weight increased with increasing fluence with threshold behavior as a result of the cooperative interactions in the CDW domains and reached the value of the Drude weight in the hole-doped metallic compound of Sr4Ca10Cu 24O41. These results indicate the photoinduced formation of a similar metallic state driven by hole doping. © 2013 The Physical Society of Japan.. |
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Naoto Fukazawa, Takahiro Tanaka, Tadahiko Ishikawa, Yoichi Okimoto, Shin-ya Koshihara, Takashi Yamamoto, Masafumi Tamura, Reizo Kato, Ken Onda, Time-Resolved Infrared Vibrational Spectroscopy of the Photoinduced Phase Transition of Pd(dmit)(2) Salts Having Different Orders of Phase Transition, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C, 10.1021/jp403193a, 117, 25, 13187-13196, 2013.06, To clarify the mechanism of the later process of photoinduced phase transition (PIPT) in organic charge-transfer complexes, we examined by time-resolved infrared vibrational spectroscopy two dimeric anion radical salts, Et2Me2Sb[Pd(dmit)(2)](2) (Et2Me2Sb salt) and Cs[Pd(dmit)(2)](2) (Cs salt) (Et, Me, and dmit are C2H5, CH3, and 1,3-dithiol-2-thione-4,5-dithiolate, respectively), having similar characteristics except for the order of their phase transitions at thermal equilibrium. The phase transition is first order for the Et2Me2Sb salt and second order for the Cs salt at thermal equilibrium. Although both salts exhibit a high-temperature phase at later delay times (>100 ps) after the photoexcitation of the low-temperature phase, the time required for the emergence of the high-temperature phase was significantly different: 70 ps for the Et2Me2Sb salt and |
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Meng Gao, Cheng Lu, Hubert Jean-Ruel, Lai Chung Liu, Alexander Marx, Ken Onda, Shin-ya Koshihara, Yoshiaki Nakano, Xiangfeng Shao, Takaaki Hiramatsu, Gunzi Saito, Hideki Yamochi, Ryan R. Cooney, Gustavo Moriena, German Sciaini, R. J. Dwayne Miller, Mapping molecular motions leading to charge delocalization with ultrabright electrons, NATURE, 10.1038/nature12044, 496, 7445, 343-346, 2013.04, Ultrafast processes can now be studied with the combined atomic spatial resolution of diffraction methods and the temporal resolution of femtosecond optical spectroscopy by using femtosecond pulses of electrons(1-14) or hard X-rays(15-19) as structural probes. However, it is challenging to apply these methods to organic materials, which have weak scattering centres, thermal lability, and poor heat conduction. These characteristics mean that the source needs to be extremely bright to enable us to obtain high-quality diffraction data before cumulative heating effects from the laser excitation either degrade the sample or mask the structural dynamics(20). Here we show that a recently developed, ultrabright femtosecond electron source(7-9) makes it possible to monitor the molecular motions in the organic salt (EDO-TTF)(2)PF6 as it undergoes its photo-induced insulator-to-metal phase transition(21-24). After the ultrafast laser excitation, we record time-delayed diffraction patterns that allow us to identify hundreds of Bragg reflections with which to map the structural evolution of the system. The data and supporting model calculations indicate the formation of a transient intermediate structure in the early stage of charge delocalization (less than five picoseconds), and reveal that the molecular motions driving its formation are distinct from those that, assisted by thermal relaxation, convert the system into a metallic state on the hundred-picosecond timescale. These findings establish the potential of ultrabright femtosecond electron sources(7-14) for probing the primary processes governing structural dynamics with atomic resolution in labile systems relevant to chemistry and biology.. |
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Ken Onda, Yoshitaka Matsubara, Tadahiko Ishikawa, Yoichi Okimoto, Shin-ya Koshihara, Takaaki Hiramatsu, Gunzi Saito, Yoshiaki Nakano, Hideki Yamochi, The Earliest Stage of Photoinduced Phase Transition in a Strongly Correlated Organic System Using a 10-fs Pulse, XVIIITH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA, 10.1051/epjconf/20134103001, 41, 2013.03. |
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Shunsuke Sato, Yasuo Matubara, Kazuhide Koike, Magnus Falkenstroem, Tetsuro Katayama, Yukihide Ishibashi, Hiroshi Miyasaka, Seiji Taniguchi, Haik Chosrowjan, Noboru Mataga, Naoto Fukazawa, Shinya Koshihara, Ken Onda, Osamu Ishitani, Photochemistry of fac-[Re(bpy)(CO)3Cl], CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, 10.1002/chem.201202734, 18, 49, 15722-15734, 2012.12, The photochemistry of fac-[Re(bpy)(CO)3Cl] (1?a; bpy=2,2'-bipyridine) initiated by irradiation using |
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Photoinduced Phase Transition in Strongly Electron-Lattice and Electron-Electron Correlated Molecular Crystals. |
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Shin-ya Koshihara, Shinichi Adachi, Yoichi Okimoto, Tadahiko Ishikawa, Ryo Fukaya, Keiki Fukumoto, Manabu Hoshino, Ken Onda, Photoinduced Phase Transitions in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, 2012 CONFERENCE ON LASERS AND ELECTRO-OPTICS (CLEO), 2012.05. |
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T. Ishikawa, M. Kitayama, A. Chono, K. Onda, Y. Okimoto, S. Koshihara, Y. Nakano, H. Yamochi, T. Morikawa, T. Shirahata, Y. Misaki, Probing the metal-insulator phase transition in the. DMEDO-EBDT/2PF6 single crystal by optical measurements, JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER, 10.1088/0953-8984/24/19/195501, 24, 19, 2012.05, The temperature and polarization dependence of the optical reflectivity spectra of a quasi-one-dimensional 1/4-filled band system,. DMEDO-EBDT/2PF6, have been investigated. We observed clear anisotropy in the electronic structures corresponding to the anisotropic transport properties. The appearance of a charge gap (E-g > 0.1 eV) and transfer of the spectral weight accompanied by the metal-insulator phase transition were clearly observed. In addition, a split of the intramolecular vibrational modes was observed, which strongly suggested the existence of charge disproportionation in the low temperature phase. We also observed a photoinduced reflectivity change, which implied the occurrence of a photoinduced phase transition from the low temperature insulating phase to the high temperature metallic phase.. |
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Naoto Fukazawa, Minoru Shimizu, Tadahiko Ishikawa, Yoichi Okimoto, Shin-ya Koshihara, Takaaki Hiramatsu, Yoshiaki Nakano, Hideki Yamochi, Gunzi Saito, Ken Onda, Charge and Structural Dynamics in Photoinduced Phase Transition of (EDO-TTF)(2)PF6 Examined by Picosecond Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C, 10.1021/jp210708q, 116, 9, 5892-5899, 2012.03, Using time-resolved near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy and time-resolved mid-infrared vibrational spectroscopy, we studied photoinduced phase transition of the charge-ordered insulating phase in a charge-transfer complex (EDO-TTF)(2)PF6 (EDO-TTF: ethylenedioxy-tetrathiafulvalene) in the hundred picosecond range after photoexcitation. The temporal profiles at 0.83-1.03 eV, which are a characteristic of the photoinduced charge-disproportionate phase immediately after photoexcitation, suggested the formation of a new metastable phase in the hundred picosecond range. Time-resolved vibrational spectra at 1300-1700 cm(-1), where charge- and structure-sensitive C=C stretching vibrational modes are located, elucidated that the nature of the new phase is very close to that of the high-temperature metallic phase and it takes about 100 ps for the new phase to emerge accompanied with charge and structure fluctuation.. |
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T. Egawa, Y. Okimoto, R. Fukaya, K. Onda, T. Ishikawa, S. -Y. Koshihara, A. Isayama, T. Sasagawa, Femtosecond Reflection Spectroscopy in La1.5Sr0.5CoO4, ACTA PHYSICA POLONICA A, 121, 2, 307-309, 2012.02, Ultrafast optical response has been investigated using fs laser system on a perovskite-type cobalt oxide, La1.5Sr0.5CoO4. After the photoirradiation at room temperature, the time profile of relative change of reflectance (Delta R/R) shows a sudden change within the pulse duration (approximate to 150 fs) and decays with a lifetime of approximate to 330 fs. The sign of Delta R/R after the photoexcitation is positive in the mid-infrared region (at 0.50 eV) while negative in the visible energy region (at 2.0 eV), implying photoinduced change of the electronic structure after the photoexcitation.. |
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K. Fukumoto, N. Fukazawa, T. Ishikawa, S. Koshihara, H. M. Yamamoto, R. Kato, K. Onda, Photo-Induced Structural Changes at a Surface of Organic Single Crystals Observed by Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy, ACTA PHYSICA POLONICA A, 121, 2, 313-315, 2012.02, Phase transitions from insulator to metal induced by thermal excitation and by photo-irradiation at the surface of beta'-(BEDT-TTF)(TCNQ) are investigated using vibrational sum frequency generation spectroscopy. The results are compared with linear reflectivity measurements which detect the information mainly from bulk. IR absorption spectra of a(g) vibrational modes of TCNQ induced by the dimerization are observed using vibrational sum frequency generation spectroscopy, and its intensity is found to become smaller by thermal excitation indicating the transition to the metal phase. Time-dependent degree of dimerization is also observed by pump probe experiments with almost the same statistics as the static measurements. On the other hand, in the reflectivity experiments, the reduction of dimerization is also observed by elevating the temperature, however, the spectral shapes are deformed for the time-resolved measurements. These results imply that the different dynamics occur at the surface and in the bulk.. |
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Y. Matsubara, T. Yoshida, T. Ishikawa, Y. Okimoto, S. -Y. Koshihara, K. Onda, Photoinduced Ionic to Neutral Phase Transition in TTF-CA Studied by Time-Resolved Infrared Vibrational Spectroscopy, ACTA PHYSICA POLONICA A, 121, 2, 340-342, 2012.02, We studied the photoinduced ionic to neutral phase transition in tetrathiafulvalene-p-chloranil (TTF-CA) using time-resolved infrared vibrational spectroscopy. By monitoring the charge sensitive b(1u)nu(10) band of CA after photoexcitation by a 1.55 eV pulse, we found that the photoinduced N-phase has the same charge of the N-phase in thermal equilibrium and there is no charge variation during the photoinduced phase transition. We also found that the photoinduced N-phase grows through at least two steps over 300 Ps.. |
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K. Seko, Y. Okimoto, M. Kurashima, R. Fukaya, T. Egawa, T. Ishikawa, K. Onda, S. -Y. Koshihara, T. Kyomen, M. Itoh, Photoinduced Phase Transition in Pr0.5Ca0.5CoO3 Studied by Sequential Pulse Excitations, ACTA PHYSICA POLONICA A, 121, 2, 369-371, 2012.02, A perovskite-type cobalt oxide, Pr0.5Ca0.5CoO3 (PCCO), shows photoinduced phase transition. In this study, we successively irradiated two laser pulses with different intensities to PCCO and probed the transient change of the reflection at 2.0 eV. Assuming propagation of the two different photoinduced metallic states, we could reproduce the time profiles as well as the magnitude in the reflectance change, indicating the fabrication of the photoinduced multilayered thin film in Pr0.5Ca0.5CoO3.. |
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S. Koshihara, K. Onda, Y. Okimoto, T. Ishikawa, Search for the Photo-Induced Hidden Phase in Inorganic and Organic Systems, ACTA PHYSICA POLONICA A, 10.12693/APhysPolA.121.328, 121, 2, 328-331, 2012.02, We review the dynamical behavior of strongly electron lattice (orbital) coupled system induced by photo-excitation of fs laser pulse. By virtue of the femtosecond (fs) spectroscopy and picosecond (ps) time-resolved X-ray diffraction measurements, we demonstrate that the photo-irradiation creates new ordered state so called as "hidden phase" which can never be realized under thermo-equilibrium condition. This exotic phase commonly plays the key role for realizing the gigantic photo-induced changes in optical properties of inorganic and organic electron lattice strongly coupled systems.. |
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T. Ishikawa, T. Tanaka, N. Fukazawa, Y. Matsubara, Y. Okimoto, K. Onda, S. Koshihara, M. Tamura, R. Kato, Slow Dynamics of the Photoinduced Phase Transition in Pd(dmit)(2) Salts (dmit=1,3-dithiol-2-thione-4,5-dithiolate), ACTA PHYSICA POLONICA A, 121, 2, 316-318, 2012.02, Slow dynamics of the initially photoinduced state has been observed by the pump-probe type time-resolved reflection spectroscopy in the charge separated phase of the half-filled strong dimer system, Et2Me2Sb[Pd(dmit)(2)](2) (dmit = 1,3-dithiol-2-thione-4,5-dithiolate). We have succeeded to reproduce the probe photon energy dependence of the time profile qualitatively in the time delay range from 10 ps to 1 ns assuming the dynamical expansion of the domain of the photo-induced dimer-Mott insulating phase in the host charge-separated one.. |
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R. Fukaya, M. Kunitomo, Y. Okimoto, T. Ishikawa, K. Onda, S. Koshihara, H. Yui, T. Sasagawa, Ultrafast Dynamics of Photoinduced Electronic Phase Modulation in Ladder Cuprate of Sr14-xCaxCu24O41, ACTA PHYSICA POLONICA A, 121, 2, 310-312, 2012.02, Ultrafast carrier dynamics caused by photoexcitation in quasi-one-dimensional two-leg ladder cuprate Sr4Ca10Cu24O41 was investigated by the femtosecond reflection spectroscopy. After the photoexcitation along the leg direction, the transient reflectivity changes (Delta R/R) in the mid-infrared region showed instant decrease within 150 fs. The suppressed Delta R/R increased so rapidly on the picosecond time scale that the reflectivity value finally became larger than that in the initial state. Such a successive response in Delta R/R, which was also observed in other photon energy regions, is discussed in terms of ultrafast variation of the Drude weight in the ladder system by the photoirradiation.. |
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Yoshitaka Matsubara, Yoichi Okimoto, Tatsushi Yoshida, Tadahiko Ishikawa, Shin-ya Koshihara, Ken Onda, Photoinduced Neutral-to-Ionic Phase Transition in Tetrathiafulvalene-p-chloranil Studied by Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy, JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN, 10.1143/JPSJ.80.124711, 80, 12, 2011.12, We studied the photoinduced neutral-to-ionic phase transition in tetrathiafulvalene-p-chloranil (TTF-CA) using time-resolved infrared (IR) vibrational spectroscopy with a broadband femtosecond IR laser pulse and a linear IR detector array. After photoexcitation, the strength of the TTF a(g)upsilon(3) band increased, indicating that dimerization is activated within similar to 1 ps. In contrast, the strength of the CAb(1u)upsilon(10) band, whose frequency is proportional to the degree of charge transfer (rho), decreased, and a broad weak band appeared in the lower-frequency region. This implies that large fluctuations in charge transfer continued until about 20 ps after the photoexcitation. These results indicate a large difference between the electronic structures of the ionic phases generated by thermalexcitation and photoexcitation, although a dimerized structure was observed in both cases.. |
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Y. Okimoto, T. Miyata, M. S. Endo, M. Kurashima, K. Onda, T. Ishikawa, S. Koshihara, M. Lorenc, E. Collet, H. Cailleau, T. Arima, Ultrafast spectral weight transfer in RBaCo2O 6-δ (R=Sm, Gd, and Tb): Role of electronic correlation in a photoinduced phase transition, Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 10.1103/PhysRevB.84.121102, 84, 12, 2011.09, We performed femtosecond reflection spectroscopy on a series of A-site ordered perovskite-type cobalt oxide RBaCo2O6-δ (R=Sm, Gd, and Tb) crystals, in which the electronic transfer was controlled by R. The transient reflectivity and the optical conductivity [σPI(ω)] obtained by a Kramers-Kronig analysis showed an ultrafast change within a time resolution (150 fs) at room temperature and the appearance of signals of a hidden state that were different from the high-temperature metallic state. The transferred spectral weight in σPI(ω) upon photoexcitation sensitively depended on the R species, indicating an important role of electronic correlation in the photoexcited state. © 2011 American Physical Society.. |
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Y. Okimoto, M. Kurashima, K. Seko, T. Ishikawa, K. Onda, S. Koshihara, T. Kyomen, M. Itoh, Acceleration of domain wall movement by photoirradiation in perovskite-type cobaltite, PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.161101, 83, 16, 2011.04, Femtosecond reflection spectroscopy was performed on a perovskite-type cobalt oxide, namely, Pr0.5Ca0.5CoO3, that undergoes a photoinduced spin-state transition. After photoirradiation at 30 K, the time profile of the reflectance change shows a broad peak reflecting the propagation of the photodomain (about 60 Co sites per one photon). Analysis of the peak position indicates the sudden increase of the velocity of the propagation with increasing the excitation intensity. Such acceleration with increase in fluence originates from an abrupt sound velocity change driven by a cooperative photoinduced structural transition.. |
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K. Onda, S. Ogihara, J. Itatani, T. Ishikawa, Y. Okimoto, S. Koshihara, X.F. Shao, Y. Nakano, H. Yamochi, G. Saito, Photoinduced Dynamics of a Quasi-1D Organic Conductor over a Range from 10 fs to 100 ps, Ultrafast Phenomena XVII, Oxford University Press, New York, 188-190, 2011.02. |
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Mina Han, Yasuo Norikane, Ken Onda, Yoko Matsuzawa, Masaru Yoshida, Masahiko Hara, Light-driven modulation of fluorescence color from azobenzene derivatives containing electron-donating and electron-withdrawing groups, NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY, 10.1039/c0nj00353k, 34, 12, 2892-2896, 2010.09. |
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K. Onda, M. Shimizu, F. Sakaguchi, S. Ogihara, T. Ishikawa, Y. Okimoto, S. Koshihara, X. F. Shao, Y. Nakano, H. Yamochi, G. Saito, Ultrafast and large reflectivity change by ultraviolet excitation of the metallic phase in the organic conductor (EDO-TTF)(2)PF6, PHYSICA B-CONDENSED MATTER, 10.1016/j.physb.2009.11.054, 405, 11, S350-S352, 2010.06, We examined the ultrafast response of the metallic high-temperature phase in the conducting charge transfer complex (EDO-TTF)(2)PF6 A large reflectivity change of approximately 10% was observed when the ultra-molecular band was excited by a weak 3 1 eV ultraviolet light pulse The lifetimes of the photo-induced states were 02 and 0 7 ps in the Drude-like band and the intra-molecular band respectively Measurement of the photo-induced spectrum just after photo-excitation and simulation using the Drude model revealed that the electronically excited EDO-TTF molecules shortened the relaxation time of conduction electrons and reduced the reflectivity of the Drude-like band (C) 2009 Elsevier B V All rights reserved. |
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Wen-can Zhou, Zheng-cao Li, Zheng-jun Zhang, Ken Onda, Sho Ogihara, Yoichi Okimoto, Shin-ya Koshihara, Nanostructured TiO2 photocatalyst and pump-probe spectroscopic study, FRONTIERS OF MATERIALS SCIENCE, 10.1007/s11706-009-0055-7, 3, 4, 403-408, 2009.12, Titanium dioxide (TiO2), with its large band gap, has attracted much attention due to its excellent photocatalytic activity. TiO2 ball-shaped nano-particles were deposited on silicon substrates by a thermal oxidation approach. With an increase in the annealing temperature the surface morphology and the structure of TiO2 remained stable, exhibiting good heat stability; meanwhile, the hydrogen production rate also increased. The femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopic study showed that the lifetime of carriers of the samples as-deposited and post-annealed at different temperatures were longer than 20 ps.. |
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Wen-can Zhou, Zheng-cao Li, Zheng-jun Zhang, Ken Onda, Sho Ogihara, Yoichi Okimoto, Shin-ya Koshihara, Nanostructured TiO2 photocatalyst and pump-probe spectroscopic study, Frontiers of Materials Science in China, 10.1007/s11706-009-0055-7, 3, 4, 403-408, 2009.11, Titanium dioxide (TiO2), with its large band gap, has attracted much attention due to its excellent photocatalytic activity. TiO2 ball-shaped nano-particles were deposited on silicon substrates by a thermal oxidation approach. With an increase in the annealing temperature the surface morphology and the structure of TiO2 remained stable, exhibiting good heat stability
meanwhile, the hydrogen production rate also increased. The femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopic study showed that the lifetime of carriers of the samples as- deposited and post-annealed at different temperatures were longer than 20 ps. © Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag 2009.. |
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Xianzhou Peng, Yoichi Okimoto, Masato Endo, Ken Sato, Takeshi Aizawa, Ken Onda, Tadahiko Ishikawa, Shin-ya Koshihara, Taka-hisa Arima, Femtosecond time-resolved reflection spectroscopy in Pr1-xCaxMnO3 (x=0.37), PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI C - CURRENT TOPICS IN SOLID STATE PHYSICS, 10.1002/pssc.200879884, 6, 1, 252-255, 2009.10. |
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T. Ishikawa, N. Fukazawa, Y. Matsubara, R. Nakajima, K. Onda, Y. Okimoto, S. Koshihara, M. Lorenc, E. Collet, M. Tamura, R. Kato, Large and ultrafast photoinduced reflectivity change in the charge separated phase of Et2Me2Sb[Pd(1,3-dithiol-2-thione-4,5-dithiolate)(2)](2), PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.115108, 80, 11, 2009.09, A large photoinduced change in reflectivity has been observed in the low-temperature charge separated (CS) phase of a dimeric radical anion salt, Et2Me2Sb[Pd(dmit)(2)](2) (dmit = 1,3-dithiol-2-thione-4,5-dithiolate). Just after the photoexcitation, the reflectivity abruptly changed reflecting the appearance of a photoinduced metastable state, indicating occurrence of recrystallizing of the CS phase by intradimer photoexcitation within a picosecond. Quantitative analysis considering the linear combination of the dielectric functions of the CS and the dimer-Mott state suggests a rather high efficiency of the photoinduced phase transition. One photon can change the valence of about five dimers. This photoinduced metastable state relaxed to the initial CS state via two successive types of relaxation processes, a fast and a slow one. The relaxation time (tau) and the reflectivity of the fast process showed a clear excitation intensity and temperature dependence. In particular, tau and the estimated domain size were enhanced up to the transition temperature (T-c) with increasing temperature. This phenomenon, a sort of critical slowing down around T-c, suggests that the density of the photoinduced state as well as the external temperature plays an important role in determining the relaxation dynamics of the photoinduced state. The results obtained indicate that this photoinduced phenomenon can be classified as a tuning of the charge in crystals via cooperative interaction between the degrees of freedom of "charge" and "molecular orbital" of the constituents, i.e., as a type of photoinduced phase transition.. |
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J. Itatani, M. Rini, A. Cavalleri, K. Onda, T. Ishikawa, S. Ogihara, S. Koshihara, X. F. Shao, Y. Nakano, H. Yamochi, G. Saito, R. W. Schoenlein, Ultrafast Gigantic Photo-Response in Charge-Ordered Organic Salt (EDO-TTF)(2)PF6 on 10-fs time scales, ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA XVI, 92, 185-+, 2009.08. |
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Y. Okimoto, X. Peng, M. Tamura, T. Morita, K. Onda, T. Ishikawa, S. Koshihara, N. Todoroki, T. Kyomen, M. Itoh, Ultrasonic Propagation of a Metallic Domain in Pr0.5Ca0.5CoO3 Undergoing a Photoinduced Insulator-Metal Transition, PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.027402, 103, 2, 2009.07, Femtosecond optical response was investigated on a perovskite-type cobalt oxide, Pr0.5Ca0.5CoO3 during an insulator-metal (I-M) transition accompanied with the change in spin configuration. After photoirradiation at 30 K, the reflectivity showed a sudden and large increase with subsequent variation depending on the observed photon energy. An exact calculation of Maxwell's equations for the Pr0.5Ca0.5CoO3 after the photoirradiation enabled us to observe the ultrafast dynamics of I-M phase transition and the motion of the photonically created metallic domain at the velocity of ultrasonic wave.. |
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Ken Onda, Sho Ogihara, Tadahiko Ishikawa, Yoichi Okimoto, Xiangfeng Shao, Yoshiaki Nakano, Hideki Yamochi, Gunzi Saito, Shin-ya Koshihara, Anomalous photo-induced response by double-pulse excitation in the organic conductor (EDO-TTF)(2)PF6, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 10.1088/1742-6596/148/1/012002, 148, 012002, 2009.03. |
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S. Ogihara, K. Onda, M. Shimizu, T. Ishikawa, Y. Okimoto, X. F. Shao, Y. Nakano, H. Yamochi, G. Saito, S. Koshihara, Excitation photon energy dependence of photo-induced phase transition in (EDO-TTF)(2)PF6, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 10.1088/1742-6596/148/1/012008, 148, 012008, 2009.03. |
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Yoichi Okimoto, Xianzhou Peng, Mieko Tamura, Takaaki Morita, Ken Onda, Tadahiko Ishikawa, Shin-ya Koshihara, Naoyuki Todoroki, Toru Kyomen, Mitsuru Itoh, Photoinduced insulator-metal transition in Pr0.5Ca0.5CoO3 as studied by femtosecond spectroscopy, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 10.1088/1742-6596/148/1/012019, 148, 012019, 2009.03. |
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N. Fukazawa, T. Ishikawa, R. Nakajima, Y. Matsubara, M. Kitayama, S. Koshihara, Y. Okimoto, K. Onda, M. Lorenc, E. Collet, M. Tamura, R. Kato, Probing the photoinduced phase transition in (C2H5)(2)(CH3)(2)Sb[Pd(dmit)(2)](2), Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 10.1088/1742-6596/148/1/012003, 148, 012003, 2009.03. |
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A. Tomita, S. Koshihara, S. Adachi, J. Itatani, K. Onda, S. Ogihara, Y. Nakano, H. Yamochi, The future of photo-induced phase transition (PIPT)-How fast and slow it can be changed?, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 10.1088/1742-6596/148/1/012066, 148, 011001, 2009.03. |
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The photo-induced phase transition in Et(2)Me(2)Sb[Pd(dmit)(2)](2). |
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Ken Onda, Sho Ogihara, Kenji Yonemitsu, Nobuya Maeshima, Tadahiko Ishikawa, Yoichi Okimoto, Xiangfeng Shao, Yoshiaki Nakano, Hideki Yamochi, Gunzi Saito, Shin-ya Koshihara, Photoinduced change in the charge order pattern in the quarter-filled organic conductor (EDO-TTF)(2)PF6 with a strong electron-phonon interaction, PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.067403, 101, 6, 2008.08, The quasistable state in the photoinduced phase transition for the quasi-one-dimensional quarter-filled organic conductor (EDO-TTF)(2)PF6 has been examined by ultrafast reflective measurements and time-dependent model calculations incorporating both electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions. The transient optical conductivity spectrum over a wide probe photon-energy range revealed that photoexcitation induced a new type of charge-disproportionate state. Additionally, coherent and incoherent oscillations dependent on probe photon energies were found, as predicted by the calculation.. |
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Ken Onda, Sho Ogihara, Tadahiko Ishikawa, Yoichi Okimoto, Xiangfeng Shao, Hideki Yamochi, Gunzi Saito, Shin-ya Koshihara, The photo-induced phase and coherent phonon in the organic conductor (EDO-TTF)(2)PF6, JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER, 10.1088/0953-8984/20/22/224018, 20, 22, 2008.06, We have investigated the nature of the photo-induced state and coherent phonon in the conducting charge transfer complex (EDO-TTF)(2)PF6 by measuring the ultrafast reflectivity change over a wide photon energy range from 0.069 eV (18 mu m) to 2.1 eV (580 nm). The photo-induced spectra just after photo-excitation indicate that the photo-induced phase is similar to but clearly different from that in a thermally induced metal phase though they are the same for general photo-induced phase transition. The temporal profiles at each probe photon energy are accompanied by extraordinarily large amplitude oscillation originating from coherent phonon generation. The period of the coherent phonon depends discretely on the probe photon energy, while the generation efficiency of both the photo-induced phase and coherent photon reaches a maximum when the peak top of a charge transfer band is excited. These results are probably attributable to the strong electron-vibration coupling in this complex.. |
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J. Itatani, M. Rini, A. Cavalleri, K. Onda, T. Ishikawa, S. Ogihara, S. Koshihara, X. Shao, H. Yamochi, G. Saito, R. W. Schoenlein, Ultrafast Gigantic Photo-Response in Charge-Ordered Organic Salt (EDO-TTF)(2)PF6 on 10-fs time scales, 1-9, 3293-+, 2008.05. |
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Bin Li, Jin Zhao, Min Feng, Ken Onda, Interferometric two-photon photoemission correlation technique and femtosecond wet-electron dynamics at the TiO2 (110) surface, FRONTIERS OF PHYSICS IN CHINA, 10.1007/s11467-008-0001-7, 3, 1, 26-40, 2008.02, The femtosecond time-resolved two-photon photoemission (TR-2PP) and the ultra high vacuum (UHV) surface science techniques are integrated to investigate the electronic structures and the interfacial electron transfer dynamics at the atomically ordered adsorbate overlayers on TiO2 single-crystalline surfaces. Our research into the CH3OH/TiO2 system exhibits complex dynamics, providing abundant information with regard to electron transport and solvation processes in the interfacial solvent structures. These represent the fundamentally physical, photochemical, and photocatalytic reactions of protic chemicals covered with metal-oxides.. |
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Jiro Itatani, Matteo Rini, Andrea Cavalleri, Ken Onda, Tadahiko Ishikawa, Shin-ya Koshihara, Xiangfeng Shao, Hideki Yamochi, Gunzi Saito, Robert W. Shoenlein, Ultrafast gigantic photo-response in (EDO-TTF)(2)PF6 initiated by 10-fs laser pulses, ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA XV, 88, 621-+, 2007.07. |
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Jin Zhao, Bin Li, Ken Onda, Min Feng, Hrvoje Petek, Solvated electrons on metal oxide surfaces, CHEMICAL REVIEWS, 10.1021/cr050173c, 106, 10, 4402-4427, 2006.10. |
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Hrvoje Petek, Bin Li, Ken Onda, Min Feng, Jinlong Yang, Kenneth D. Jordan, Jin Zhao, PHYS 215-Ultrafast electron dynamics in photocatalytic processes on single crystal TiO2(110) surfaces, ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 232, 2006.09. |
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Jin Zhao, Ken Onda, Bin Li, Hrvoje Petek, Ultrafast proton-coupled electron transfer in heterogeneous photocatalysis, PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY OF INTERFACES AND NANOMATERIALS V, 10.1117/12.678279, 6325, 2006.08. |
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B Li, J Zhao, K Onda, KD Jordan, JL Yang, H Petek, Ultrafast interfacial proton-coupled electron transfer, SCIENCE, 10.1126/science.1122190, 311, 5766, 1436-1440, 2006.03, The coupling of electron and nuclear motions in ultrafast charge transfer at molecule-semiconductor interfaces is central to many phenomena, including catalysis, photocatalysis, and molecular electronics. By using femtosecond laser excitation, we transferred electrons from a rutile titanium dioxide (110) surface into a CH3OH overlayer state that is 2.3 +/- 0.2 electron volts above the Fermi level. The redistributed charge was stabilized within 30 femtoseconds by the inertial motion of substrate ions ( polaron formation) and, more slowly, by adsorbate molecules ( solvation). According to a pronounced deuterium isotope effect (CH3OD), this motion of heavy atoms transforms the reverse charge transfer from a purely electronic process (nonadiabatic) to a correlated response of electrons and protons.. |
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K Onda, B Li, J Zhao, H Petek, The electronic structure of methanol covered TiO2(110) surfaces, SURFACE SCIENCE, 10.1016/j.susc.2005.06.044, 593, 1-3, 32-37, 2005.11, We report on the electronic structure rutile TiO2(110) surfaces following the exposure to methanol. Two-photon photoemission (2PP) spectra reveal a strong resonance at 2.2-2.4 eV above Fermi level, which gains maximum intensity at similar to 1 ML coverage of methanol. From the coverage, temperature and emission angle dependence of the methanol induced spectral features and similarities to a related state on water covered TiO2(110) surfaces, we assign the resonance to charge transfer excitation from the reduced five-coordinate Ti-5c(+4-delta) ions to hydroxyl groups on the bridging oxygen rows. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.. |
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A Kubo, K Onda, H Petek, ZJ Sun, YS Jung, HK Kim, Femtosecond imaging of surface plasmon dynamics in a nanostructured silver film, NANO LETTERS, 10.1021/nl0506655, 5, 6, 1123-1127, 2005.06, Light interacting with nanostructured metals excites the collective charge density fluctuations known as surface plasmons (SP). Through excitation of the localized SP eigenmodes incident light is trapped on the nanometer spatial and femtosecond temporal scales and its field is enhanced. Here we demonstrate the imaging and quantum control of SP dynamics in a nanostructured silver film. By inducing and imaging the nonlinear two-photon photoemission from the sample with a pair of identical 10-fs laser pulses while scanning the pulse delay, we record a movie of SP fields at a rate of 330-attoseconds/frame.. |
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K Onda, B Li, J Zhao, KD Jordan, JL Yang, H Petek, Wet electrons at the H2O/TiO2(110) surface, SCIENCE, 10.1126/science.1109366, 308, 5725, 1154-1158, 2005.05, At interfaces of metal oxide and water, partially hydrated or "wet-electron" states represent the lowest energy pathway for electron transfer. We studied the photoinduced electron transferatthe H2O/TiO2(110) interface by means of time-resolved two-photon photoemission spectroscopy and electronic structure theory. At ∼ 1-monolayer coverage of water on partially hydroxylated TiO2 surfaces, we found an unoccupied electronic state 2.4 electron volts above the Fermi level. Density functional theory shows this to be a wet-electron state analogous to that reported in water clusters and which is distinct from hydrated electrons observed on water-covered metal surfaces. The decay of electrons from the wet-electron state to the conduction band of TiO2 occurs in ≤ 15 femtoseconds... |
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L Guerin, D Glijer, N Moisan, M Lorenc, M Buron-Le Cointe, E Collet, H Cailleau, A Ota, G Saito, Shao, X, H Yamochi, M Chollet, K Onda, T Ishikawa, S Koshihara, Phase transition in (EDO-TTF)(2) PF6 : domain growth in the thermal hysteresis and ultra-fast photoinduced effects., Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 10.1088/1742-6596/21/1/024, 21, 149-154, 2005.01. |
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Ken Onda, Tadahiko Ishikawa, Matthieu Chollet, Shao Xiangfeng, Hideki Yamohchi, Gunzi Saito, Shin-Ya Koshihara, Ultrafast infrared spectroscopic study of the photo-induced phase transition in (EDO-TTF)2PF6, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 10.1109/IQEC.2005.1560823, 21, 216-220, 2005.01. |
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A Kubo, K Onda, H Petek, ZJ Sun, YS Jung, HK Kim, Imaging of localized silver plasmon dynamics with sub-fs time and nano-meter spatial resolution, ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA XIV, 79, 645-649, 2004.12. |
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K Onda, B Li, H Petek, Surface femtochemistry: Photocatalytic reaction dynamics of methanol/TiO2(110), ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA XIV, 79, 416-418, 2004.12. |
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T Okada, Otake, I, R Mizoguchi, K Onda, SS Kano, A Wada, Optical control of two-photon excitation efficiency of alpha-perylene crystal by pulse shaping, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 10.1063/1.1787490, 121, 13, 6386-6391, 2004.10, Optimized pulse shaping experiments were carried out on the control of two-photon excitation efficiency of an alpha-perylene crystal in the temperature region from 30 to 290 K. It was found that a pulse train with a pulse interval of 90 fs and an alternately reversing phase relation increased the excitation efficiency by a factor of 2 for the whole temperature region. The pulse shape characteristic for effective efficiency increase was educed by double pulse experiments in which the dependence of the emission intensity on the pulse interval and relative phase between pulses were measured. The mechanism of the efficiency increase is briefly discussed using a sliding-window Fourier transform of the pulse shape. (C) 2004 American Institute of Physics.. |
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K Onda, B Li, H Petek, Two-photon photoemission spectroscopy of TiO2(110) surfaces modified by defects and O-2 or H2O adsorbates, PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.045415, 70, 4, 2004.07. |
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K Onda, K Tanabe, H Noguchi, K Domen, A Wada, Dynamic processes of olefins adsorbed on hydroxyl groups of DM20 zeolite excited by picosecond infrared pulses: Vibrational relaxation, short-lived species and desorption, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B, 10.1021/jp030047h, 107, 41, 11391-11396, 2003.10, We have investigated olefins adsorbed on Bronsted acidic hydroxyl groups (OD) of DM20 zeolite by transient infrared absorption spectra after excitation of the OD stretching mode using picosecond infrared lasers. The olefins studied were ethylene, deuterated ethylene, propylene, and isobutene, and only isobutene was adsorbed on OD at its methyl group while the other olefins were adsorbed at their double bonds. For all the olefins except isobutene, simple vibrational relaxation of the v = 1 state was observed and the lifetimes were 2-4 ps. These lifetimes are an order faster than that of isolated OD. For isobutene, a long lifetime component lasting more than 500 ps was observed in addition to vibrational relaxation of 2 ps. The transient absorption spectra for isobutene-adsorbed zeolite at various time delays and frequencies indicated the existence of a short-lived species and a slow desorption process compared with vibrational relaxation.. |
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S Katano, S Dobashi, J Kubota, K Onda, A Wada, SS Kano, K Domen, Structural change of CO adsorbed on Pt(111) by laser heating: time-resolved sum-frequency generation study, CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS, 10.1016/S0009-2614(03)01194-1, 377, 5-6, 601-606, 2003.08, The IR-visible sum-frequency generation (IVSFG) method was used to perform time-resolved vibrational measurements of CO/Pt(1 1 1). Irradiation of intense picosecond laser pulses (35 ps, 1064 nm) resulted in a drop in intensity, redshift, and broadening of the on-top CO stretching peak, followed by recovery to the original peak shape on the order of hundreds of picoseconds. The transient behavior of the CO stretching signal was found to depend on the CO coverage. The transient spectra at saturation coverage consisted of a single peak, whereas at low coverage (0.25 ML) the line shape became asymmetric and each transient peak could be deconvoluted to the multiple components. The origin of the remarkable change in the transient spectral features at the 0.25 ML surface is discussed. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.. |
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R Mizoguchi, K Onda, SS Kano, A Wada, Thinning-out in optimized pulse shaping method using genetic algorithm, REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS, 10.1063/1.1569398, 74, 5, 2670-2674, 2003.05, An optical pulse shaping system using a spatial light modulator (SLM) controlled by genetic algorithm (GA) optimization was improved and we demonstrated that the time for finding the optimal condition could be shortened by a proposed "thinning out" method. In this method, GA controls only every N (N=1, 2, 4, 8, 16) pixel in the SLM. The conditions of the remaining pixels are derived by interpolation. The effectiveness of this method was verified by the pulse compression of chirped femtosecond pulses and the increase in the two-photon excitation efficiency of alpha-perylene crystals. The influence of the thinning out on the pulse shape is discussed, and an advanced method is proposed. It is shown that the disadvantages of the thinning out method can be compensated for by changing the value of N during optimization. (C) 2003 American Institute of Physics.. |
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H Noguchi, T Okada, K Onda, SS Kano, A Wada, K Domen, Time-resolved SFG study of formate on a Ni(111) surface under irradiation of picosecond laser pulses, SURFACE SCIENCE, 10.1016/S0039-6028(02)02630-4, 528, 1-3, 183-188, 2003.03, Time-resolved sum-frequency generation spectroscopy was carried out on a deuterated formate (DCOO) adsorbed on Ni(1 11) surface to investigate the surface reaction dynamics under instantaneous surface temperature jump induced by the irradiation by picosecond laser pulses. The irradiation of pump pulse (800 nm) caused the rapid intensity decrease of both CD and OCO stretching modes of bridged formate on Ni(1 11). Different temporal behaviors of intensity recovery between these two vibrational modes were observed, i.e., CD stretching mode recovered faster than OCO. This is the first result to show that the dynamics of adsorbates on metals strongly depends on the observed vibrational mode. From the results of temperature and pump fluence dependence, we concluded that the observed intensity change was not due to the decomposition or desorption, but was induced by a non-thermal process. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.. |
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K Onda, Y Iwasawa, A Wada, Vibrational relaxation of adsorbate and adsorbent in the CO-adsorbed DM-20 zeolite system, CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS, 10.1016/S0009-2614(03)00071-X, 370, 3-4, 437-442, 2003.03, We made the first observation of transient vibrational spectra of both adsorbate and adsorbent at molecule-adsorbed surface using a two-color infrared picosecond laser system. The transient measurements were carried out on the CO-adsorbed surface hydroxyl group (OD) of DM-20 zeolite by pumping the CO stretching mode (2175 cm(-1)) or OD stretching mode (2470 cm(-1)) and probing over the CO and OD stretching region (2000-2700 cm(-1)). The T(1) lifetime for OD was 5.8 ps and that for CO was 540 ps. By comparison with other CO-adsorbed systems, vibrational relaxation mechanisms of CO on various surfaces are discussed. We also found evidence of energy flows from the vibrational mode of the adsorbent (OD stretching) to that of the adsorbate (CO stretching) via van der Waals interaction. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.. |
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H Ishida, R Mizoguchi, K Onda, C Hirose, SS Kano, A Wada, Second harmonic observation of Cu(111) surface: in situ measurements during molecular adsorption, SURFACE SCIENCE, 10.1016/S0039-6028(02)02651-1, 526, 1-2, 201-207, 2003.02, Second harmonic generation (SHG) spectroscopy using a tunable femtosecond laser has been demonstrated as an effective and a practical in situ monitor of surface electronic states during adsorption processes. We have successfully shown this technique to be suitable for the study of surface electronic states, not only those induced by adsorbed molecules but also those associated with clean surfaces. By observing the change in the SH signals from a Cu(I 11) surface during exposure to benzene or CO molecules, we discovered new resonances of the clean Cu surface that could not be ascribed to the well-known surface state (SS)-image state (IS) transition. One of these was from a surface site that is less likely to adsorb benzene, where the SH signal intensity was kept constant until the Cu surface was covered by the sub-monolayer. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.. |
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A Bandara, SS Kano, K Onda, S Katano, J Kubota, K Domen, C Hirose, A Wada, SFG spectroscopy of CO/Ni(111): UV pumping and the transient hot band transition of adsorbed CO, BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN, 10.1246/bcsj.75.1125, 75, 5, 1125-1132, 2002.05, A UV excitation by a picosecond pulse at 266 ran induced an unusual shoulder on the nu(CO) = 1 |
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K Onda, M Nakagawa, T Asakai, R Watase, A Wada, K Ichimura, C Hirose, Controlling packing structure of hydrophobic alkyl tails of monolayered films of ion-paired macrocyclic amphiphiles as studied by sum-frequency generation sepectroscopy, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B, 10.1021/jp013939v, 106, 15, 3855-3859, 2002.04, Two kinds of monolayered films of ion-paired macrocyclic amphiphiles formed from anionic surfactant 1,2-bis [(dodecyloxy)carbony1] ethane-1-sulfonate and tetracationic macrocycles with different molecular sizes were prepared on hydrophilic silica plates by the Langmuir- Blodgett technique. Vibrational sum-frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy was applied to investigate the packing structure of the alkyl chains of the films. The SF intensity ratio of the CH symmetric stretching mode of the methylene group to that of methyl group in the alkyl chains increased when the occupied area of the macrocycle was larger than the sum of the cross-sectional areas of the hydrophobic alkyl tails. The appearance of a methylene CH band in the SFG spectra implies the presence of gauche conformation in the alkyl chains. This indicates that the molecular size of the cyclic tetracation hydrophilic head exclusively governs the packing structure of the alkyl group hydrophobic tails in the monolayer state. The results show that monolayer fabrication using ion-paired macrocyclic amphiphiles has advantages in allowing control over the packing structure of the outermost alkyl chains of solid surfaces through the choice of the size of the tetracation.. |
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K Onda, A Wada, K Domen, C Hirose, Realtime observation of the desorption process of isobutene from zeolite using picosecond infrared lasers, SURFACE SCIENCE, 10.1016/S0039-6028(01)01970-7, 502, 319-324, 2002.04, The transient absorption spectra of OD stretching mode of isobutene-adsorbed hydroxyl groups of DM20 zeolite were measured by picosecond infrared-infrared pump-probe experiment. The vibrational relaxation time (T-1) of the upsilon = I state was estimated to be 12 +/- 2 ps from the temporal profile of the bleaching and hot bands of the OD stretching mode. We found a band indicating the production of a short-lived species at 40 ps after excitation. Moreover we observed the course of isobutene-desorption in the time region from 40 to 100 ps. This result implies that this desorption does not occur immediately but occurs after local vibrational relaxation. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.. |
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K Kusafuka, H Noguchi, K Onda, J Kubota, K Domen, C Hirose, A Wada, Time-resolved study of formate on Ni(111) by picosecond SFG spectroscopy, SURFACE SCIENCE, 10.1016/S0039-6028(01)01969-0, 502, 313-318, 2002.04, Time-resolved vibrational measurements were carried out on formate (HCOO) adsorbed on Ni(I 1 1) surface by combining the sum-frequency generation method and picosecond laser system (time resolution of 6 ps). Rapid intensity decrease (within the time resolution) followed by intensity recovery (time constant of several tens of ps) of CH stretching signal was observed when picosecond 800 nm pulse was irradiated on the sample surface. From the results of temperature and pump fluence dependences of temporal behaviour of signal intensity, we concluded that the observed intensity change was induced by non-thermal process. Mechanism of the temporal intensity change was discussed. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.. |
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Ken Onda, Masaru Nakagawa, Toshiaki Asakai, Reiko Watase, Akihide Wada, Kunihiro Ichimura, Chiaki Hirose, Controlling packing structure of hydrophobic alkyl tails of monolayered films of ion-paired macrocyclic amphiphiles as studied by sum-frequency generation spectroscopy, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 10.1021/jp013939v, 106, 15, 3855-3859, 2002.03. |
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K Onda, K Tanabe, H Noguchi, A Wada, T Shido, A Yamaguchi, Y Iwasawa, Studies of the surface deuterioxyl group and adsorbed D2O on gamma-Al2O3 using picosecond infrared pump-probe spectroscopy, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B, 10.1021/jp0118625, 105, 46, 11456-11461, 2001.11, Picosecond infrared-infrared pump-probe experiments in the OD stretching region were carried out on dehydrated and multilayer water-adsorbed gamma -Al2O3. For the dehydrated gamma -Al2O3, transient bands assigned to the bleaching and hot bands of the OD stretching mode of isolated surface hydroxyl groups were observed, and the population lifetime (T-1) of the vibrational excited state (nu = 1) of the mode was 200 +/- 10 ps at 293 K. The characteristic temperature dependence of T-1 is indicative of a seven-phonon process. For the wateradsorbed gamma -Al2O3, the transient bleaching and transient hot bands with a lifetime of 10-12 ps were observed by excitation of the absorption peak at 2630 cm(-1). In addition to these bands, weak transient bands were observed in the low-frequency region. These results are considered evidence of the existence of isolated water molecules on the gamma -Al2O3 surface. Pure dephasing is also discussed based on the bandwidth of the observed transient bands.. |
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Observation of unstable reaction intermediate by picosecond tunable infrared laser pulses. |
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K Onda, M Yaginuma, A Wada, K Domen, C Hirose, Vibrational relaxation process of polyatomic molecules absorbed in zeolites, LASER CHEMISTRY, 10.1155/1999/60362, 19, 1-4, 321-324, 1999.12. |
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A Bandara, J Kubota, K Onda, A Wada, K Domen, C Hirose, Short-lived reactive formate species on NiO(111) observed by picosecond temperature jump, SURFACE SCIENCE, 10.1016/S0039-6028(99)00076-X, 433, 83-87, 1999.08, The combination of an instantaneous temperature jump induced by the irradiation of picosecond laser pulses and the subsequent observation by sum-frequency generation spectroscopy enabled the identification of a short-lived reactive intermediate in the decomposition of formate on NiO(111) surface. The irradiation of 1064 nm laser pulses caused the vibrational peak at 2160 cm(-1), which is the C-D stretching mode nu(CD) of bidentate formate, to weaken and the nu(CD) of monodentate formate at 2190 cm(-1) to appear. The spectral changes recovered in 100 ps time scale but not fully above 400 K. The observations suggested that the formate in bidentate configuration transformed to monodentate formate prior to decomposition. Temperature- and time-dependent features indicated that the two types of formate were in equilibrium and the equilibrium shifted towards the monodentate form by a rapid laser-induced temperature jump of about 250-300 K. The experiment enabled us to identify short-lived species and to estimate kinetic parameters. The enthalpy difference between bidentate and monodentate formates and the activation energy for the decomposition of monodentate formate were 19+/-5 and 30+/-10 kJ/mol, respectively. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.. |
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K Domen, A Bandara, J Kubota, K Onda, A Wada, SS Kano, C Hirose, SFG study of unstable surface species by picosecond pump-probe method, SURFACE SCIENCE, 10.1016/S0039-6028(99)00301-5, 427-28, 349-357, 1999.06, We succeeded in identifying the intermediates in thermal decomposition reactions by utilizing the combination of an instantaneous temperature jump induced by the irradiation of picosecond laser pulses and the subsequent observation by time-resolved sum-frequency generation (TR-SFG) spectroscopy. The short-lived reactive intermediates in the decomposition of formats on NiO(111) and Ni(111) surfaces were identifie. The irradiation of 1064 nm laser pulses caused the vibrational peak of the C-D stretching mode v(CD) of bidentate formate on NiO(111) to weaken and the v(CD) band of monodentate formate to appear. The result on Ni(111) showed the weakening of the v(CD) band of bridging formate and the appearance of the C=O stretching mode v(C=O) of monodentate formate. The spectral changes recovered on a 100 ps time scale but not fully above 400 K for the NiO(111) system and 320 K for the Ni(111) system, indicating the onset of thermal decomposition in the high-temperature period. The observations suggested that the formate in the stable bidentate/bridging configurations transformed to unstable monodentate formats prior to decomposition. Temperature- and time-dependent features indicated that the two types of formate were in equilibrium and the equilibrium shifted towards the monodentate form by the rapid laser-induced temperature jump of about 250-300 K. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.. |
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S Katano, A Bandara, J Kubota, K Onda, A Wada, K Domen, C Hirose, Screening of SFG signals from bridged CO on Ni(111) by the coexistence of linear CO, SURFACE SCIENCE, 10.1016/S0039-6028(99)00299-X, 427-28, 337-342, 1999.06, A spectroscopic study of adsorbed CO on Ni(111) was carried out using infrared-visible sum-frequency generation (SFG) and infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy (IRAS). An anomalous coverage-dependence of the SFC signal intensities of bridged and linear CO was found. While the SFG signal of bridged CO at 1920 cm(-1) gained intensity with increasing CO coverage in the region between 0 and 0.4 ML (1 monolayer, ML: saturation coverage at 130 K), it weakened and disappeared when linear CO (2074 cm(-1)) was present on the surface above 0.47 ML. The IRA peak of bridged CO, however, did not disappear at the increased coverage suggesting that the weakening of the SFG signal of bridged CO is not caused by the decrease in the coverage but by the suppression of the SFG process of bridged CO by the coexistence of linear CO. The spectra of isotope mixtures of C(16)O and C(18)O clearly indicated that the weakening of SFG signals is not caused by the dipole-dipole coupling between the vibrational modes of bridged and linear CO. The anomalous coverage-dependence of the SFG signal was ascribed to the change of the Raman tensor by the coadsorption of linear CO. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.. |
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A Bandara, J Kubota, K Onda, A Wada, SS Kano, K Domen, C Hirose, Time-resolved SFG study of the vibrational excitation of adsorbed CO on Ni(111) and NiO(111) surfaces under the irradiation of UV and visible photons, SURFACE SCIENCE, 10.1016/S0039-6028(99)00298-8, 427-28, 331-336, 1999.06, The effects of irradiation by picosecond ultraviolet (266 nm) and visible (532 nm) pulses of GO-covered Ni(111) and NiO(111)/Ni(111) surfaces were investigated by infrared-visible sum-frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy. As a result of the irradiation of UV pulses, the SFG signal by the v = 1 |
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T Yuzawa, T Shioda, J Kubota, K Onda, A Wada, K Domen, C Hirose, Polarization characteristics from SFG spectra of clean and regulatively oxidized Ni(100) surfaces adsorbed by propionate and formate, SURFACE SCIENCE, 10.1016/S0039-6028(98)00625-6, 416, 1-2, L1090-L1094, 1998.10, Experiments have been carried out on propionate and formate adsorbed on clean and regulatively oxidized Ni(100) surfaces to scrutinize the notion that the polarization characteristics of infrared-visible sum frequency generation (SFG) signals of molecules on metallic surfaces are different from those due to molecules on insulating surfaces. Both propionate and formate give signals only for p-polarized visible pulses on clean metal and oxygen-saturated surfaces, but signals due to s-polarized visible pulses appeared from the propionate-covered surface as soon as the surface was covered with a monolayer of NiO(100). Vibrational peaks of propionate were located at 2887, 2945, and 2988 cm(-1) and were assigned to the symmetric stretching mode of CH2 group, the symmetric stretching mode of CH3 group, and the degenerate stretching mode of CH3 group, respectively. The peak of the surface formate was located at 2938 cm(-1) on the clean metal surface, but another band appeared at 2860 cm(-1) on oxide-layered surfaces. The causes of this appearance of the (sp) polarization signals by the presence of the NiO layer are discussed. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.. |
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T Fujino, M Kashitani, K Onda, A Wada, K Domen, C Hirose, M Ishida, F Goto, SS Kano, Picosecond infrared pump-probe spectrum of D2O adsorbed at acid OD group of zeolite, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 10.1063/1.476816, 109, 6, 2460-2466, 1998.08, Spectroscopic and dynamic features of the vibrationally excited D2O/zeolite system have been investigated by two-color infrared-infrared pump-probe experiment. The frequency- and delay-scanned probe intensities were measured by tuning the pump laser to the OD stretching bands of the D2O molecule hydrogen bonded to the acidic OD group of mordenite zeolite. Two types of pump-induced signals were observed: the ones which have the population lifetime of 43+/-5 ps and display frequency shift by the pumping frequency, and the others, which have the lifetime of about 15 ps and exhibit no such frequency shift. Possible origins of the signals are discussed. (C) 1998 American Institute of Physics.. |
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A Bandara, J Kubota, K Onda, A Wada, SS Kano, K Domen, C Hirose, Short-lived reactive intermediate in the decomposition of formate on NiO(111) surface observed by picosecond temperature jump, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B, 10.1021/jp9816364, 102, 31, 5951-5954, 1998.07, Unstable intermediates are indispensable ingredients of chemical reactions, but their identification at solid surfaces has been hampered by the lack of techniques to detect short-lived and fractionally generated species. We succeeded in identifying the intermediate in a thermal decomposition reaction by utilizing the picosecond temperature jump induced by the irradiation of laser pulses and the observation by sum-frequency generation spectroscopy. We verified that the decomposition of formate on the NiO(lll) surface is preceded by the transformation of stable bidentate formate to unstable monodentate formate, which is the reactive intermediate, and two species are found to be in equilibrium before decomposition.. |
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A Bandara, S Katano, J Kubota, K Onda, A Wada, K Domen, C Hirose, The effect of co-adsorption of on-top CO on the sum-frequency generation signal of bridge CO on the Ni(111) surface, CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS, 10.1016/S0009-2614(98)00493-X, 290, 1-3, 261-267, 1998.06, Anomalous coverage dependence was observed on the sum-frequency generation signal of bridge CO on the Ni(111) surface when co-adsorbed by on-top CO. The bridge CO peak was distinct and normal from 0.04 to similar to 0.40 monolayer (ML) but weakened after the appearance of the on-top CO peak at 0.47 ML and disappeared at 0.60 ML, although both peaks were observed in the infrared reflection absorption spectra up to 1.0 ML. The spectra of mixtures of (CO)-O-16 and (CO)-O-18 eliminate the possibility that the weakening of the bridge CO band is caused by its coupling with the on-top band. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.. |
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K Onda, M Yaginuma, T Yokota, A Wada, K Domen, C Hirose, SS Kano, Relaxation process of CO stretching mode of metal carbonyls adsorbed on Y zeolites studied by pump-probe experiment, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 10.1063/1.476004, 108, 14, 5935-5941, 1998.04, The vibrational relaxation lifetimes of Mo(CO)(6) and Cr(CO)(6), adsorbed in a cage of HY, DY, and NaY zeolites, were measured at various temperatures by the pump-probe method using picosecond infrared laser pulses. The lifetimes at 110 K of the v=1 level of the CO stretching mode were 70+/-4, 53+/-5, and 150+/-9 ps for Mo(CO)(6) on HY, DY, and NaY zeolite, respectively, and 87+/-6, 74+/-7, and 140+/-12 ps for Cr(CO)(6), respectively. It was shown by comparison of the lifetimes at 110 K, as well as the temperature dependence, that the rate of vibrational relaxation is determined by the coupling of the CO stretching mode with four quanta of the accepting modes comprised of: (i) modes with displacement of central metals Cr or Mo in all of the three zeolite systems, (ii) modes associated with the OH and OD groups on zeolite surface in the HY and DY zeolite systems, and probably (iii) the frame vibrational modes of zeolite with energies at 300-800 cm(-1). (C) 1998 American Institute of Physics.. |
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A Bandara, S Dobashi, J Kubota, K Onda, A Wada, K Domen, C Hirose, SS Kano, Adsorption of CO and NO on NiO(111)/Ni(111) surface studied by infrared-visible sum frequency generation spectroscopy, SURFACE SCIENCE, 10.1016/S0039-6028(97)00366-X, 387, 1-3, 312-319, 1997.10, Adsorption of CO and NO on NiO(111) thin films epitaxially grown on Ni(111) substrate has been studied by infrared-visible sum frequency generation (SFG) and the results were compared with those of infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy. From SFG measurements. the C-O stretching band of adsorbed CO was observed at 2144 cm(-1) for both p-and s-polarized visible (532 nm) light whereas the adsorbed NO gave the N-O stretching band at 1800 cm(-1) only for the p-polarized visible light. These observations suggested that the CO molecule was inclined to the surface whereas the tilt angle of NO from the surface normal was smaller than that of CO. The adsorption sites of CO and NO molecules are located on the slopes of trigonal microfacets formed by the reconstruction of the NiO(lll) surface. CO adsorbed on Ni(111) instead of NiO(111) was also examined: the SFG signal corresponding to the C-O stretching mode of linearly bonded CO was observed al 2076 cm(-1) only for the p-polarized visible light, but that of the bridge-bonded one (at saturation coverage) was not detected by SFG. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.. |
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T Yuzawa, J Kubota, K Onda, A Wada, K Domen, C Hirose, A TPD and SFG study of propionic acid adsorbed on Ni(110) surface, JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURE, 10.1016/S0022-2860(97)00151-8, 413, 307-312, 1997.09, Propionic acid adsorbed on Ni(110) surface was studied by temperature programmed desorption (TPD) and infrared-visible sum frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy. The TPD results indicated that propionic acid molecularly adsorbed on the Ni(110) surface at 113 K and that the multilayers of propionic acid started to desorb at 213 K. The molecularly adsorbed propionic acid on the first layer decomposed on further heating to form propionate species which decomposed at 390 K to H-2(g) and CO2(g), leaving carbon on the surface. The SFG spectra of the propionic acid adsorbed in various thickness at 113 K gave vibrational peaks at 2885 cm(-1), 2956 cm(-1), and 2990 cm(-1), assigned to the symmetric CH stretching mode of the CH2 group, symmetric CH stretching mode of the CH3 group, and antisymmetric CH stretching node of the CH2 group, respectively, of propionic acid. The multilayered films gave peaks under both the (pp) and (sp) polarization combinations of visible and infrared pulses but the signals disappeared for the (sp) polarization combination when the coverage was lower than one monolayer (ML). The absence of the SFG peaks for the (sp) polarization combination on the low coverage surface was ascribed to the difference in molecular orientation and molecular SFG tenser. The SFG spectrum of the surface which was dosed at 300 K gave vibrational peaks at 2885 cm(-1), 2948 cm(-1), and 2990 cm(-1) only for the (pp) polarization combination. These peaks were assigned to the symmetric CH stretching mode of the CH2 group, symmetric CH stretching mode of the CH3 group, and the antisymmetric CH stretching mode of the CH2 group of propionate, the product of dissociative adsorption. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.. |
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H Katagiri, T Sako, A Hishikawa, T Yazaki, K Onda, K Yamanouchi, K Yoshino, Experimental and theoretical exploration of photodissociation of SO2 via the (C)over-tilde(1)B(2) state: identification of the dissociation pathway, JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURE, 10.1016/S0022-2860(97)00199-3, 413, 589-614, 1997.09, The photodissociation reaction of SO2 via the (C) over tilde(1)B(2) state, SO2 ((C) over tilde(1)B(2)) --> SO((3) Sigma(-)) + O(P-3) was investigated by experimental and theoretical approaches cooperatively to clarify its dissociation mechanism. We measured the laser induced fluorescence (LIF) spectrum of the (C) over tilde-(X) over tilde band in the short UV wavelength region (210-200 nm) under jet-cooled conditions. The fluorescence quantum yields and the dissociation rates of individual vibronic levels were determined in the 220-200-nm region using (i) the LIF spectrum measured in the present study, (ii) that measured previously by Yamanouchi et al. (J. Mol. Struct, 352/353 (1995) 541) in the longer wavelength region above 210 nm, and (iii) the high-resolution absorption spectrum measured by Freeman et al. (Planet. Space. Sci. 32 (1984) 1125). The dissociation rates were also derived in the 210-200-nm region from the broadening of the rotational lines of the (C) over tilde-(X) over tilde vibronic transitions. It was found that the dissociation rates determined through two different procedures were consistent with each other, and that the rate increases almost exponentially as an excess energy above the dissociation threshold increases though there is a certain fluctuation of the dissociation rates reflecting a mode specificity. We also performed theoretical ab initio calculations to derive potential energy surfaces (PESs) of the electronic ground states and low-lying electronically excited states of SO2 within the MCSCF and MRCI levels. The theoretical calculations showed that (i) the PES of the 2(1)A' state (the (C) over tilde(1)B(2) state in C-2r symmetry), correlating with the SO((1) Delta) + O(D-1) asymptote, crosses with the repulsive singlet (3(1)A') state, correlating with the SO((3) Sigma(-)) + O(P-3) asymptote, to form a pseudo-seam, (ii) the crossing pseudo-seam of these two PESs is located near the equilibrium bent angles for the X and C states along the energy contour of similar to 9700 cm(-1) measured from the SO((3) Sigma(-)) + O(P-3) dissociation limit, and (iii) the crossing seam between the 2(1)A' ((C) over tilde(1)B(2)) and repulsive 2(3)A' states is located in a lower energy region than the singlet seam; at similar to 6700 cm(-1) measured from the SO((3) Sigma(-)) + O(P-3) dissociation limit. On the basis of the above experimental and theoretical results together with the previous experimental evidence, we propose that (i) the photodissociation reaction via the (C) over tilde state proceeds mainly through the vibronic mixing between the (C) over tilde state vibronic levels with the quasi-bound dissociation continuum of the electronic ground X(1)A(1) state, and (ii) the additional dissociation channels may be open through the crossing seam with the repulsive singlet (3(1)A') state and that with the repulsive tiplet (2(3)A') slate in their narrow crossing energy regions. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.. |
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T Tasaka, K Onda, A Hishikawa, K Yamanouchi, PHOFEX spectroscopy of HgNe and HgAr: Determination of the dissociation energies of the X-1 Sigma(+), A(3)II(0)+, and (BII1)-I-3 states, BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN, 10.1246/bcsj.70.1039, 70, 5, 1039-1045, 1997.05, Photofragment excitation (PHOFEX) spectroscopy was applied to determine the dissociation energies of the B-3 Pi(1) states of HgAr and HgNe. The PHOFEX spectra were measured in the wavelength region where the laser-induced fluorescence spectrum of the B-3 Pi(1)-X-1 Sigma(+) transition exhibits a continuum structure by probing the photolysis product of Hg(6(3)P(1)) through the Hg(8(3)S(1)-6(3)P(1)) transition. By the spectral simulation of the threshold behavior of the high-resolution (Delta v approximate to 0.08 cm(-1)) PHOFEX spectrum, the thresholds for the photodissociation reaction, HgRg --> Hg(6(3)P(1)) + Rg, were determined to be 39447.9(3) and 39536.0(5) cm(-1) for Rg = Ne and Ar, respectively. From these thresholds, the dissociation energies, D-0's, of the B-3 Pi(1) states of HgNe and HgAr were determined to be D-0(B-3 Pi(1); HgNe)= 9.8(3) and Do(B-3 pi(1); HgAr)= 61.8(5) cm(-1), respectively. This direct determination of the dissociation energies of the B-3 Pi(1) states led to a determination of the D-0's for the X-1 Sigma(+) and A(3) Pi(0+) states; D-0(X-1 Sigma(+); HgNe)= 35.6(3), D-0(X-1 Sigma(+); HgAr)= 123.7(5), D-0(A(3) Pi(0+); HgNe)= 68.7(3), and D-0(A(3) Pi(0+); HgAr)= 348.8(6) cm(-1) In addition, the (v',0) vibronic bands of the B-3 Pi(1)-X-1 Sigma(+) transition of HgAr were re-measured with high resolution for v' = 0-8. From the transition wavenumbers of these vibronic bands, the Morse potential parameters were determined with high precision as omega(e) = 11.94(3) cm(-1) and omega(e)x(e) = 0.594(3) cm(-1).. |
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T Fujino, M Furuki, M Kashitani, K Onda, J Kubota, JN Kondo, A Wada, K Domen, C Hirose, F Wakabayashi, M Ishida, F Goto, SS Kano, The effect of adsorbed noble gas atoms on vibrational relaxation of hydroxyl group in zeolite, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 10.1063/1.471873, 105, 1, 279-288, 1996.07, By means of tunable infrared pump-probe experiment, vibrational relaxation rates (v = 1-->0) of OH stretching mode of Bronsted acidic hydroxyl groups in a mordenite zeolite, which were interacting with noble gases (He, Ar, Kr, or Xe), were measured. The population lifetime, T-1, decreased with the increase of the interaction with noble gases, e.g., 170 ps and 58 ps for isolated hydroxyl groups and ones interacting with Xe, respectively. Using a simple linear chain model, the mechanism for the enhancement of the relaxation rate was studied. (C) 1996 American Institute of Physics.. |
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K Onda, K Yamanouchi, Electronic structure of metal rare gas dimers with sp configuration: Application to strong spin-orbit interaction in HgAr, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 10.1063/1.471683, 104, 23, 9376-9387, 1996.06, In order to describe the electronic states of metal (M)-rare gas (Rg) van der Waals dimers having an sp configuration with a strong spin-orbit interaction, we derived an elf parity adapted molecular Hamiltonian matrix by adopting a symmetry-adapted atomic orbital approach. The molecular Hamiltonian was constructed by introducing (i) the interaction between the p electron and the attached rare gas atom V-Rg, (ii) the exchange interaction between the s and p orbitals, e(2)/r(sp), and (iii) the spin-orbit interaction for the p electron. As a basis set, twelve molecular electronic wave functions were derived by taking into account their elf parities. We applied the derived molecular Hamiltonian matrix to the first excited 6s6p configuration of HgAr by performing a least-squares fit to the spectroscopically determined term values for the v = 0 levels of the a (II0-)-I-3, A (II0+)-I-3, B (II1)-I-3, b (II2)-I-3, and C (II1)-I-1 states. From the results of the least-squares fit, we clarified how the above interactions (i)-(iii) split twelve degenerate molecular wave functions into the eight electronic eigenstates; i.e., a (II0)-I-3, A (II0+)-I-3, B (II1)-I-3, b (II2)-I-3, c (3) Sigma(1)(+), d (3) Sigma(0)(+), C (II1)-I-1, and D (1) Sigma(0)(+). On the basis of (i) a critical comparison between the atomic Hamiltonian matrix for Hg and the determined molecular Hamiltonian matrix and (ii) an examination of the mixing among the symmetry-adapted molecular wave functions, characteristic features of the electronic structure arising from the formation of a van der Waals bond, were extracted. (C) 1996 American Institute of Physics.. |
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L KRIM, C JOUVET, B SOEP, K ONDA, K YAMANOUCHI, JP VISTICOT, INDUCTION OF OPTICAL-TRANSITIONS THROUGH COMPLEXATION WITHIN HG RARE-GAS VAN-DER-WAALS SYSTEMS, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 10.1063/1.470475, 103, 14, 5956-5963, 1995.10, The high repulsive states of HgAr and HgNe van der Waals complexes, correlating with Hg 6s6d atomic states have been investigated by double resonance spectroscopy, through the first excited state A (3)0(+) and B (3)1 of the complexes. The repulsive potentials have been fitted through numerical Franck-Condon simulations. They have been characterized by perturbative calculation as quasi-pure 6d Sigma potentials in Hund's case a. The strong Hg-rare gas electrostatic interaction potential overruns the spin-orbit interaction at distances shorter than 7 Angstrom. These observed repulsive states are mostly of Omega=1 character correlating with D-3(3) at infinite distances. The contribution from the potential of Omega=0(-) symmetry correlating with D-1(2) is of minor importance. Therefore, the absorption in the repulsive states of the complex arises mostly from proximity induced absorption in an optically forbidden transition P-3(1)-->D-3(3). A perturbative model accounts well for the bound free absorption intensities experimentally observed. (C) 1995 American Institute of Physics.. |
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K ONDA, K YAMANOUCHI, INTERATOMIC POTENTIALS OF SINGLET S-RYDBERG SERIES OF A HGNE VAN-DER-WAALS DIMER - EVIDENCE FOR STABILIZATION BY SUPEREXCHANGE INTERACTION, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 10.1063/1.469171, 102, 3, 1129-1140, 1995.01. |
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K ONDA, K YAMANOUCHI, M OKUNISHI, S TSUCHIYA, INTERATOMIC POTENTIALS OF TRIPLET S-RYDBERG SERIES OF HGNE AND HGAR VAN-DER-WAALS DIMERS, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 10.1063/1.468286, 101, 9, 7290-7299, 1994.11, The optical-optical double resonance (OODR) spectra of Rydberg (3) Sigma(+) states of Hg(n(3)S(1))Ne (n=8-10) and Hg(8(3)S(1))Ar were measured by using A and B states as intermediate states in the OODR process. The interatomic potentials of three states of HgNe and one state of HgAr were determined over a wide range of interatomic distance, R=3-7 Angstrom, by the analysis of the vibrational structure of their OODR spectra. It was found that the potential shape varies sensitively with n and converges to that of the ion core, HgNe+. Dissociation energies (D-e) of the Rydberg states for the n=8, 9, and 10 were derived to be 209(2), 284(2), and 309(2) cm(-1), respectively. Using the quantum defect orbital [G. Simons, J. Chem. Phys. 60, 645 (1974)], which represents a hydrogenic radial wave function for a Rydberg state with a given quantum defect, was introduced to interpret the characteristic n dependence of the interatomic potential. It was shown that the interatomic potential for the Rydberg states can be expressed by the sum of the ion core potential, V-ion(R), and the repulsive potential, V-ex(R), which originates mainly from the exchange repulsion between the Rydberg electron and the attached rare gas atom. The interatomic potential for Hg(8(3)S(1))Ar, whose dissociation energy [D-e=1602(4) cm(-1)] is much deeper than that of Hg(8(3)S(1))Ne, was also interpreted consistently by expressing the potential as V-ion(R) + V-ex(R).. |
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M OKUNISHI, K YAMANOUCHI, K ONDA, S TSUCHIYA, INTERATOMIC POTENTIAL OF THE HGNE VANDERWAALS COMPLEX IN THE E(3-SIGMA+) RYDBERG STATE, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 10.1063/1.464149, 98, 4, 2675-2681, 1993.02, The lowest Rydberg state E(3SIGMA+) of the HgNe van der Waals complex has been investigated by optical-optical double resonance (OODR) spectroscopy using two intermediate electronic states of A(3)0+ and B(3)1. The E-B band exhibits an oscillatory free-bound continuum, which reflects a Franck-Condon projection of the wave function of the B state onto the repulsive part of the E state potential. In the E-A band, two relatively sharp peaks are observed together with a free-bound continuum showing an asymmetric interference structure. The observed intensity patterns of the E-B and E-A bands are interpreted by a potential barrier characteristic of the E state potential, which traps two quasibound vibrational states in the inner well. Based on (i) the observed Franck-Condon pattern of the free-bound transitions; (ii) the transition's wave number of the bound-bound transitions in the E-A band; and (iii) the rotational constants of the quasibound (v = 0 and v = 1) levels in the E state, the interatomic potential of the E state is derived by a numerical simulation. The height of the potential barrier measured from the dissociation limit of Hg (7 S-3(1)) + Ne is determined to be 153 cm-1 and the interatomic distance at the top of the barrier to be located at 3.9 (1) angstrom.. |
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K ONDA, M TAKAHASHI, Y ISHIKAWA, K SUGITA, K TANAKA, S ARAI, DM RAYNER, PA HACKETT, MECHANISM OF HYDROGENATION OF ETHYLENE VIA PHOTOPRODUCED UNSATURATED IRON CARBONYL IN THE GAS-PHASE, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY, 10.1021/j100155a049, 95, 2, 758-761, 1991.01, The hydrogenation of ethylene via photoproduced coordinatively unsaturated iron carbonyls in the gas phase has been investigated by measuring deuterium distribution in ethanes produced following photolysis of mixtures of Fe(CO)5, C2H4, and hydrogen (D2 or D2/H2) by monochromatic CW-UV light (ca. 250 nm). When mixtures of Fe(CO)5, C2H4, and D2 are photolyzed, only ethane-1,2-d2 and ethane-1,1-d2 are produced. The ratio of ethane-1,2-d2 to ethane-1,1-d2, ranges from 1.5 to 1.9 but does not depend on the irradiation time. When a mixture containing Fe(CO)5, C2H4, H2, and D2 was photolyzed, the only additional product was C2H6. Ethane-d1 was not observed. These results suggest that both deuterated ethanes are produced in the primary hydrogenation process and that one ethylene molecule reacts with one hydrogen molecule on the metal. Possible hydrogenation mechanisms are discussed in light of the observed results.. |
