Research group of Kermit Murray at Louisiana State University where we use lasers for sampling and imaging and study the chemistry and physics of laser ablation.
K. K. Murray, K. G. Unfried and R. F. Curl, “Acetylene Combustion Reactions. Rate Constant Measurements for the Reaction of HCCO with O2 and C2H2,” Chem. Phys. Lett. 192, 512 (1992).
K. K. Murray, C. L. Morter and R. F. Curl, “Vibrational Relaxation of Acetylene Produced by the Photolysis of Vinyl Bromide,” J. Phys. Chem. 96, 5047 (1992).
Jet cooled radical setup at Rice University, 1991.
P. Carrick, R. F. Curl, M. Dawes, E. Koester, K. K. Murray, M. Petri and M. L. Richnow, “The OH Stretching Fundamental of Methanol,” J. Mol. Struct. 223, 171 (1990).
Jet free-radical setup with multi-pass White cell
R. F. Curl, K. K. Murray, M. Petri, M. L. Richnow and F. K. Tittel, “Infrared Spectroscopy of Jet Cooled Transient Molecules,” Chem. Phys. Lett. 161, 98 (1989).
Pulsed valve jet-cooled radical setup: excimer laser fires toward (or across) the pulsed valve jet expansion to create radicals that are cooled in the expansion.
Infrared spectroscopy of jet-cooled transient molecules