Karen C. Muyskens

Karen C. Muyskens, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Physical Chemistry. Kinetics and molecular dynamics of gas-phase systems; photodissociation of gas-phase molecules; multiphoton ionization; spectroscopy.

Publications
Research Plan

Office: S-317
Address: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
3201 Burton Street SE
Grand Rapids, Michigan 49546

Email: muyk@calvin.edu
Phone: (616)957-6864

Publications

1. Vibrational Overtone Spectroscopy of H₂O (4n_OH) Using Energy-Selective Electron Impact Ionization, C. C. Hayden, S. M. Penn, K. J. Carlson and F. F. Crim,J. Phys. Chem. 1988, 92, 1397.

2. The photodissociation of methyl iodide at 229.4 nm: A determination of the fragment recoil anisotropy using energy-selective electron impact ionization and time-of-flight mass spectrometry, S. M. Penn, C. C. Hayden, K. J. Carlson Muyskens and F. F. Crim, J. Chem. Phys. 1988, 89, 2909.

3. A molecular beam time-of-flight mass spectrometer using low-energy electron impact ionization, C. C. Hayden, S. M. Penn, K. J. Carlson Muyskens and F. F. Crim Rev. Sci. Instrum. 1990, 61, 775.

4. Photoelimination of vibrationally-excited hydrogen fluoride from 248-nm photodissociation of formyl fluoride using HF chemical laser IR detection, K. E. Broekhuizen*, D. A. Vander Griend*, A. L. Jager*, A. Monsma*, K. J. Carlson Muyskens, and M. A. Muyskens, manuscript in preparation.

5. Evidence for using scanning tunneling microscopy to determine the orientation and conformation of organic molecules physisorbed on graphite and molybdenum disulfide, D. M. Cyr, K. J. Carlson Muyskens, B. Venkataraman, G. W. Flynn, A. Black and G. M.Whitesides, manuscript in preparation.

* Calvin College undergraduate co-worker.

Research Plan