Ministry of Education Outstanding Teaching Award (1990)
My research focuses on using spectroscopic techniques to study the dynamics of electronically excited small molecules. The research primarily involves small molecules and radicals related to chemical lasers, combustion chemistry, air pollution, and atmospheric chemistry. Key data include electronic state distributions, vibrational state distributions, reaction rate cross-sections, electronic energy transfer rates, and quantum yields.
Research methods include photosensitization, reactive intermediates, photodissociation, and laser-induced fluorescence. The light sources used in these studies include resonance lamps, lasers, and synchrotron radiation sources.
1. Yu, Y. C. “A Comparison of Xe(3P1) and Xe(3P2) Quenching Reactions” J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem. 1989, 47, 59.
2. Yu, Y. C.; Setser, D. W. “Krypton Chloride and Krypton Fluoride Thermochemistry and Formation and Relaxation Kinetics in Ar, N2 and CF4 Buffer Gas” J. Phys. Chem. 1990, 94, 2934.
3. Quinones, E.; Yu, Y. C.; Setser, D. W.; Lo, G. “Decay Kinetics of XeCl(B,C) in Xe and in Mixtures of Xe with Kr, Ar, Ne and He” J. Chem. Phys. 1990, 93, 333.
4. Yu, Y. C.; Wategaonkar, S. J.; Setser, D. W. “Electronic Quenching of XeCl(B,C) and Xe2Cl*” J. Chem. Phys. 1992, 96, 8914.
5. Yu, Y.C. “Fluorescence Excitation Spectra of XeCl(B, D), KrCl(B) and XeBr(B) Excimers” J. Photochem. Photobil. A: Chem. 1992, 69, 127.
6. Yu, Y. C.; Wang, K. J. “A Comparison of Kr(3P1) and Kr(3P2) Quenching Reactions” J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem. 1993, 72, 109.
