ANISOTROPIC ANHARMONICITY OF LATTICE AND MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS OF 1,2,4,5-TETRABROMOBENZENE DETERMINED BY PIEZOMODULATED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY

摘要

Strain-induced coupling constants for the anharmonicity of Raman-active lattice and certain molecular modes of vibration in 1,2,4,5-tetrabromobenzene (TBB) crystals have been determined using piezomodulated Raman spectroscopy. These constants, which are directly related to the first anharmonic term in the potential energy expansion for lattice dynamical calculations, are a quantitative measurement of the modal anharmonicities in the TBB molecular crystal. Application of uniaxial stress in the experiments permits the anisotropy of the anharmonicity to be determined as well as its magnitude. The TBB lattice modes are significantly coupled by the induced strains and the effects of coupling were observed to be dependent on the direction and symmetry of the strains. The molecular modes investigated were, by comparison, less coupled by the acoustic phonons and generally exhibited less anharmonic response with increasing frequency. (C) 1995 American Institute of Physics. [References: 23]