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Pure CH4 (1) Ice at 31 K

Description
Sample Type Ice
Components CH4
Ratio 1
Substrate KBr or CsI
Reference Temperature 31 K
Wavenumber (cm⁻¹) 499.99 - 5000
Wavelength (µm) 2 - 20

Crystalline methane (CH4) ice deposited at 31 K onto a potassium bromide (KBr) or cesium iodide (CsI) substrate, and held at 31 K during spectroscopic measurements.

The real (n) and imaginary (k) parts of the complex index of refraction were determined using optical measurements done at a temperature of 31 K, by infrared transmission spectroscopy from 5000 to 500 cm⁻¹ with a resolution of 1 cm⁻¹.

The absorption spectrum of a 0.51-µm-thick sample is provided in this dataset.

More information can be found in the publication and on the OCdb contributor's page.

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n,k,A,All

References

Any use of this data should recognize the parent publication(s):

Gerakines, P. A. and Hudson, R. L. (2020) 'Modified Algorithm and Open-source Computational Package for the Determination of Infrared Optical Constants Relevant to Astrophysics', The Astrophysical Journal, 901:52, 10 pp.

https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abad39

n/k Values

A Values