Interatomic and intermolecular decay processes in quantum fluid clusters

AC LaForge, LB Ltaief, SR Krishnan… - Reports on Progress …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
In this comprehensive review, we explore interatomic and intermolecular correlated
electronic decay phenomena observed in superfluid helium nanodroplets subjected to …

Dopant ionization and efficiency of ion and electron ejection from helium nanodroplets

JD Asmussen, L Ben Ltaief, K Sishodia… - The Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Photoionization spectroscopy and mass spectrometry of doped helium (He) nanodroplets
rely on the ability to efficiently detect ions and/or electrons. Using a commercial quadrupole …

Bright continuously tunable vacuum ultraviolet source for ultrafast spectroscopy

L Jurkovičová, L Ben Ltaief, A Hult Roos, O Hort… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Ultrafast electron dynamics drive phenomena such as photochemical reactions, catalysis,
and light harvesting. To capture such dynamics in real-time, femtosecond to attosecond light …

Generation of large vortex-free superfluid helium nanodroplets

A Ulmer, A Heilrath, B Senfftleben… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Superfluid helium nanodroplets are an ideal environment for the formation of metastable,
self-organized dopant nanostructures. However, the presence of vortices often hinders their …

Three-dimensional femtosecond snapshots of isolated faceted nanostructures

A Colombo, S Dold, P Kolb, N Bernhardt, P Behrens… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The structure and dynamics of isolated nanosamples in free flight can be directly visualized
via single-shot coherent diffractive imaging using the intense and short pulses of x-ray free …

Time-resolved x-ray scattering of excited state structure and dynamics

H Yong, A Kirrander, PM Weber - 2023 - books.rsc.org
Directly observing atomic motions in molecules during chemical dynamics has long
constituted one of the grand challenges in chemistry. 1 The emergence of X-ray free …

A two-frame movie of X-ray induced structural dynamics in single free nanoparticles

M Sauppe, T Bischoff, C Bomme, C Bostedt… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Because of their high pulse energies, X-ray free-electron lasers (FEL) allow to resolve the
structure of individual nanoparticles via coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) within a single X …

Melting, bubble-like expansion and explosion of superheated plasmonic nanoparticles

S Dold, T Reichenbach, A Colombo, J Jordan… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We report on time-resolved coherent diffraction imaging of gas-phase silver nanoparticles,
strongly heated via their plasmon resonance. The x-ray diffraction images reveal a broad …

Imaging ultrafast electron dynamics in isolated nanoparticles

B Senfftleben, J Zimmermann, A Colombo… - European Quantum …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The excitation of atomic clusters and nanodroplets in strong laser fields is an ideal model
scenario for studying the ultrafast physical processes underlying the formation and evolution …

Imaging Clusters and Their Dynamics with Single-shot Coherent Diffraction

A Colombo, D Rupp - 2023 - books.rsc.org
Diffraction before destruction1, 2 has been a key vision driving the development and
construction of extreme ultraviolet (XUV) and X-ray free-electron lasers (FELs; see Chapter …