Experimental and Theoretical Study of Strong Low-Terahertz Absorption of Thymine

Zhang, W-D., A. Bykhovski, J. A. Deibel, and E. R. Brown. "Experimental and Theoretical Study of Strong Low-Terahertz Absorption of Thymine." Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves 38, no. 12 (2017): 1521-1529.

Abstract

The absorption coefficient of a nucleobase-thymine-in powder form was measured with terahertz spectroscopy in both frequency- and time-domain experiments. For frequencies below 3 THz, a strong signature was observed at 1.27 THz. Furthermore, molecular-dynamic simulations were conducted to reveal that the 1.27 THz absorption signature is related to a transverse optical phonon mode. The simulations also indicated that bound water molecules are vital to the vibrational mode.

... 3 Experimental Methods and Results: Time-Domain Spectroscopy. Next to verify the frequency-domain result, we measured thymine samples with a time-domain system (Teraview TPS Spectra 3000) operating from 0.1 to ∼4.0 THz, and having a dynamic range of ∼60 dB ...

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For full paper see https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10762-017-0420-z