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The experiments performed were all done at low temperature (1.5(DEGREES)K and 10(DEGREES)K) where the vibrational relaxation rates are slowed allowing the effect of crystal disorder to be investigated.","The results of this study have shown that vibrational relaxation in low temperature molecular crystals depends on a variety of effects. In a pure crystal the effect of molecular symmetry has been shown to be important in determining whether fundamental or combination vibrations are involved in vibrational relaxation. The studies of isotopically mixed crystals have shown that one and two site processes can be of importance and have shown that relaxation is greatly affected by a lower energy state of the same normal coordinate on the heavier isotope. In addition, the photon echo experiments look at isolated guest molecules in a chemically different host and have shown that relaxation of the guest can be slower than the host modes of nearly equal energy, thus indicating single site decay with the emission of bulk phonons.","Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-13T15:39:27Z (GMT). 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