on Friday, July 9, 2010

Author(s): Hangxun Xu and Kenneth S. Suslick

Single-bubble sonoluminescence (SBSL) spectra in H2O show featureless continuum emission. From an acoustically driven, moving bubble in phosphoric acid (H3PO4), we observe very strong molecular emission from excited OH radicals (∼310  nm), which can be used as a spectroscopic thermometer by fitting ...

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 244301] Published Wed Jun 16, 2010