Three attempts and one success in addressing the bandgap closure in mercury clusters

Details Three attempts and one success in addressing the bandgap closure in mercury clusters Three attempts and one success in addressing the bandgap closure in mercury clusters

Sep 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999pmagb..79.1427b&link_type=abstract

Philisophical Magazine B, vol. 79, Issue 9, p.1427-1436

Computer Science

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We review the ups and downs of three projects, in which we tried to address the problem of bandgap closure in mercury clusters over the last 18 years. The first project aimed at measuring the polarizability of neutral mercury clusters. This project stopped with the appearance of the polarizability measurements from Knight's group. In the second project we measured the photoelectron spectra of mass-selected negatively charged mercury clusters Hg-n in the size range n = 3-250. The spectra were characterized by gaps which shrink with increasing n. Those gaps represent the s-p excitation bandgaps of the corresponding neutral clusters. Extrapolation of the bandgap to higher cluster size indicated complete closure at the size range n = 400 30, a considerably larger value than previously reported (n = 80- 100). We present here new photoelectron spectra taken with 6.4 eV photons which reinforce the above conclusion. In the third project we measured the photoelectron spectra of HgnI- clusters. We had hoped to extract from these spectra the static dielectric response of neutral mercury clusters. We present these recent results and explain their failure to deliver the desired dielectric response.

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