Abstract

Metal vapor excimers have attracted the attention of many researchers over the last decade. In recent years, the excimers belonging to the Group II-B have been also reported.¹ The motivation of these studies is the fact such Group II-B molecules have a potential to realize a new category of high-power energy-storage-type excimers. The potential structure of these species has a great advantage because the upper states are bound potentials with relatively long radiative lifetimes of several micro seconds. The combination of such long-lived bound states to lower repulsive states is of interest in developing a new-type excimer laser. Continue to the study of Zn dimer,² we report the observation of a visible excimer emission of Cd₂ excited by relativistic electron-beam.

© 1995 IEEE