Issue 27, 2024

Near-infrared absorption and radiative cooling of naphthalene dimers (C10H8)2

Abstract

The radiative cooling of naphthalene dimer cations, (C10H8)2+ was studied experimentally through action spectroscopy using two different electrostatic ion-beam storage rings, DESIREE in Stockholm and Mini-Ring in Lyon. The spectral characteristics of the charge resonance (CR) band were observed to vary significantly with a storage time of up to 30 seconds in DESIREE. In particular, the position of the CR band shifts to the blue, with specific times (inverse of rates) of 0.64 s and 8.0 s in the 0–5 s and 5–30 s storage time ranges, respectively. These long-time scales indicate that the internal energy distribution of the stored ions evolves by vibrational radiative cooling, which is consistent with the absence of fast radiative cooling via recurrent fluorescence for (C10H8)2+. Density functional based tight binding calculations with local excitations and configuration interactions (DFTB-EXCI) were used to simulate the absorption spectrum for ion temperatures between 10 and 500 K. The evolution of the bandwidth and position with temperature is in qualitative agreement with the experimental findings. Furthermore, these calculations yielded linear temperature dependencies for both the shift and the broadening. Combining the relationship between the CR band position and the ion temperature with the results of the statistical model, we demonstrate that the observed blue shift can be used to determine the radiative cooling rate of (C10H8)2+.

Graphical abstract: Near-infrared absorption and radiative cooling of naphthalene dimers (C10H8)2

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
21 mar. 2024
Accepted
13 jun. 2024
First published
24 jun. 2024

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024,26, 18571-18583

Near-infrared absorption and radiative cooling of naphthalene dimers (C10H8)2

J. Bernard, S. Martin, A. Al-Mogeeth, C. Joblin, M. Ji, H. Zettergren, H. Cederquist, M. H. Stockett, S. Indrajith, L. Dontot, F. Spiegelman, D. Toublanc and M. Rapacioli, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, 26, 18571 DOI: 10.1039/D4CP01200C

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