OLOF ECHT

Professor, Physics Department
Undergraduate Director, Physics Department
Professor, Materials Science Program

(603) 862-3548
9 Library Way Durham New Hampshire 03824
E-mail: olof.echt@unh.edu

http://pubpages.unh.edu/~oee/

Expertise:

Atomic Clusters, Fullerenes & Metallofullerenes, Cluster-Surface Collisions, Mass Spectrometry, Pulsed Laser Deposition of Thin Films

Professional Interests:

Implantation of metal ions into fullerene films and gas-phase fullerenes; analysis of the energetics and kinetics of these caged systems. Competing decay channels (dissociation, thermionic emission) for highly excited fullerenes; pump-probe experiments to determine the lifetime of excited electronic states. Properties of atomic clusters deduced from the kinetic energy release in their unimolecular dissociation. Determination of mass, charge state and kinetic energy of particles in the plasma formed above solid targets by pulsed laser ablation. Pulsed laser deposition of thin films.

Education:

1979	Ph.D. in Physics, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
1975	M.S. in Physics, Free University, Berlin, Germany

Publications:

2003	Probing Electronic States of Ne₂⁺ and Ar₂⁺ by Measuring Kinetic Energy Release Distributions J. Fedor, R. Parajuli, S. Matt-Leubner, O. Echt, F. Hagelberg, K. Głuch, M. Probst, P. Scheier, T.D. Märk Phys. Rev. Lett. 91 (2003) 133401
2003	On the Triplet Lifetime in Free, Photo-Excited C₆₀ R. Deng, M. Treat, O. Echt, K. Hansen J. Chem. Phys. 118 (2003) 8563-8565 (Communication)
2002	Collisional Formation and Dissociation of Na@C 60+ R. Deng, O. Echt Chem. Phys. Lett. 353 (2002) 11-18
2002	Multiply Charged Clusters (invited review) O. Echt, P. Scheier, T. D. Märk C. R. Physique 3 (2002) 353 – 364
1999	Cluster Ions Measured Using Mass Spectrometry (invited review) O. Echt, T. D. Märk Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy and Spectrometry, (J. Lindon, G. Tranter and J. Holmes, eds.), Academic Press, (1999) 327 - 336
1998	On the Efficiency of Thermionic Emission from C₆₀ R. Deng, O. Echt J. Phys. Chem. A 102 (1998) 2533 - 2539
1997	Thermionic Emission and Fragmentation of C₆₀ K. Hansen, O. Echt Phys. Rev. Lett. 78 (1997) 2337 - 2340