@article {Ferraro:1992:0003-7028:1520, author = "Ferraro, John R. and Wang, H. Hau and Whangbo, Myung-Hwan and Stout, Phil", title = "Microreflectance Infrared Study of Bis(ethylenedithio)-tetrathiafulvalene (BEDT-TTF or ET) Salts", journal = "Applied Spectroscopy", volume = "46", number = "10", year = "1992", abstract = "For several β- and κ-phase salts of bis(ethylenedithio)tetrathiafulvalene (BEDT-TTF or simply ET) and its deuterium analog d8-ET, microreflectance infrared spectra were obtained by employing polarized and unpolarized light, and their vibronic regions were examined. These salts exhibit a strong vibronic absorption under polarized light. The vibronic absorption of the β-phase salts has a much stronger polarization-dependency than that found for the κ-phase salts. For the β-phase salts, the optimum vibronic absorption occurs when the polarized light vector is parallel to their donor-molecule stacking direction. Among the ET salts without structural disorder, the highest C-C-H bending frequency for the superconductors is lower than ~1320 cm−1 while that for the non-superconductors is higher than ~1320 cm−1.", pages = "1520-1524", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/sas/sas/1992/00000046/00000010/art00015", doi = "doi:10.1366/000370292789619313", keyword = "Polarized infrared, Microreflectance, Organic conducting salts" }