title: Diatomic monocations and dications containing germanium and a rare gas atom.
abstract: Diatomic dications and monocations GeY2+ and GeY+, where Y = Ne, Ar, Kr or Xe, have been detected on the microsecond time scale. They are characterized via appearance energies, charge stripping of GeY+ ions, and mass-analysed ion kinetic energy spectroscopy. The formation of GeAr+ is found to involve an excited state of Ar in a Hornbeck-Molnar process.
authors.affiliation: School of Chemical Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 61801.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Curtis
authors.forename: L S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Rong
mesh_terms: D002413:Cations, Divalent; D002414:Cations, Monovalent; D005857:Germanium; D013058:Mass Spectrometry / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D005741:Noble Gases
chemical_list: D002413:Cations, Divalent; D002414:Cations, Monovalent; D005741:Noble Gases; D005857:Germanium