CPUF - Chirped Pulse in Uniform supersonic Flow


December 2014, April 2015 - Publication of three articles detailing a major new technique developed in collaboration with Arthur Suits (Wayne State University, Detroit) and Robert Field (MIT): CPUF, Chirped pulse in Uniform Flow, combining Chirped Pulse Fourier Transform Millimetre Wave detection with the CRESU technique

1.    C. Abeysekera, et al., Product Branching in the Low Temperature Reaction of CN with Propyne by Chirped-Pulse Microwave Spectroscopy in a Uniform Supersonic Flow, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 6, 1599 (2015).
2.    J. M. Oldham, et al., A chirped-pulse Fourier-transform microwave/pulsed uniform flow spectrometer. I. The low-temperature flow system, J. Chem. Phys. 141, 7, 154202 (2014).
3.    C. Abeysekera, et al., A chirped-pulse Fourier-transform microwave/pulsed uniform flow spectrometer. II. Performance and applications for reaction dynamics, J. Chem. Phys. 141, 214203 (2014).


CPUF technique