Research

Sub-THz Cavity Enhanced Absorption

While molecular beam experiments are ideal for generating and studying transient species, low number densities and short pathlengths require highly sensitive spectroscopic…

Molecular Reaction Dynamics

  Figure 1, Reaction coordinate and transition state.  Product state distributions (vibration, rotation, etc.), hint at the transition state geometry Chemical reaction…

Armadillos and Toasters

This section describes the method we use to generate millimeter and sub-millimeter wavelength radiation (mm/submm-waves)

Molecular Reaction Dynamics Probed Via Pure Rotational Spectroscopy

My students and I have designed, built and tested a unique instrument for probing molecular reaction dynamics via pure rotational spectroscopy.

mm–waves to Terahertz

What are mm-waves and why do we use them?