Question

While employed at Ford, Maker and Terhune invented a type of this technique that measures ruby-laser induced blueshifting as a proxy for three-wave mixing. That type of this technique forms a coherent signal by treating a sample with two laser pulses instead of a continuous wave, and is called either CSRS (“scissors”) or CARS (“cars”). This (10[1])technique can measure (10[1])the diameters of single-walled carbon nanotubes (10[1])by analyzing their radial breathing (10[1])mode. (10[2])Modes in (10[1])this technique (10[1])are only detected alongside changes in polarizability. (10[1]-5[1])Changes in wavenumber are measured in this technique based (10[1])on the change of energy in Stokes and anti-Stokes (10[3])transitions. (10[2])For (10[1])10 points, name this spectroscopic (10[1])technique that relies on a type of inelastic scattering to measure the vibrational (10[1])modes (-5[1])of molecules, named for an Indian chemist. ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: Raman spectroscopy [or coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy]
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2025 ACF Nationals04/19/2025Y2095%0%10%85.05

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Caleb OttWaterloo BArizona State5310
Colin VeeversOttawaCornell A5610
Geoffrey WuColumbia AWUSTL B6210
Shiva TegullaUCFOhio State6710
Sinecio MoralesJohns HopkinsGeorgia State6810
Karan GurazadaTexasNorth Carolina B6810
Andrew WangIllinois AVirginia7010
Jason ZhangToronto CRIT7210
Anurag SodhiMITWUSTL A79-5
Matt SchiavoneNorthwesternStanford7910
Rasheeq AzadNorth Carolina AWaterloo A8810
Alan XieYaleCornell B9710
Benjamin ChapmanToronto AGeorgia Tech9710
Raymond ChenToronto BWinona State9710
Alex AkridgeIndianaIowa State9810
Teigue KellyPenn StateNYU9810
Albert Yingzhi NyangLSEVanderbilt9910
Yash MandaviaIllinois BFlorida10410
Yashwanth BajjiMichiganMinnesota11710
Joy AnHarvardMaryland118-5
Andy YuMarylandHarvard12610
Neal JoshiWUSTL AMIT1260