Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol.108, No.12, 5137-5142, 1998
Light emission during the agglomeration of silver clusters in noble gas matrices
The agglomeration of small silver clusters in noble gas matrices to form larger ones may be accompanied by the emission of light. Spectral analysis reveals that part of radiation intensity can be attributed to fluorescence from excited metal atoms, dimers and trimers the formation of which results from cluster/cluster agglomeration as a consequence of the gain in binding energy. The remaining spectral features must be assigned to excited clusters Ag-n, with n greater than or equal to 4.