W. Harbich et al., OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY OF SIZE-SELECTED SILVER CLUSTERS EMBEDDED IN SOLID NEON - A CLUSTER-SUPPORT INTERACTION STUDY, Surface review and letters, 3(1), 1996, pp. 1147-1152
Silver ions comprising 8, 11, 20, and 21 atoms have been produced by s
puttering, mass-selected in a quadrupole mass filter and deposited at
30-eV landing energy together with neon on a 5-K sapphire support. The
absorption spectra show results similar to the system Ag-n/argon, but
are better resolved. The spectra are compared to gas-phase depletion
data and to corresponding sodium clusters. The matrix shift is analyze
d and a value of the gas-phase position of the spectra is given.