Production of electronically excited bismuth in a supersonic flow
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 54 (1) , 28-32
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.331700
Abstract
Emission signals at 8758 Å were observed when bismuth atom vapor was introduced into a supersonic flow of electronically excited nitrogen fluoride, NF (a1Δ). A correlation of thermal and pressure data with the appearance of the chemiluminescence, along with a computer analysis of the IRTV observations at two wavelengths, is presented. On the basis of an analysis of these data, it is concluded that the observed emission results from the production of an excited-state bismuth atom density, Bi(2D3/2), on the order of >1013 atoms cm−3 by collisional transfer with NF (a1Δ).This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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