Laser-induced Coulomb explosion imaging of aligned molecules and molecular dimers

CA Schouder, AS Chatterley… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
We discuss how Coulomb explosion imaging (CEI), triggered by intense femtosecond laser
pulses and combined with laser-induced alignment and covariance analysis of the angular …

H2: the benchmark molecule for ultrafast science and technologies

H Ibrahim, C Lefebvre, AD Bandrauk… - Journal of Physics B …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
This review article focuses on imaging and controlling ultrafast dynamics of the hydrogen
molecule and its cation, initiated by ultrashort laser pulses. We discuss the mechanisms …

Ultrafast electron diffraction imaging of bond breaking in di-ionized acetylene

B Wolter, MG Pullen, AT Le, M Baudisch… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Visualizing chemical reactions as they occur requires atomic spatial and femtosecond
temporal resolution. Here, we report imaging of the molecular structure of acetylene (C2H2) …

Imaging molecular motion: femtosecond x-ray scattering of an electrocyclic chemical reaction

MP Minitti, JM Budarz, A Kirrander, JS Robinson… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
Structural rearrangements within single molecules occur on ultrafast time scales. Many
aspects of molecular dynamics, such as the energy flow through excited states, have been …

H2 formation via non-Born-Oppenheimer hydrogen migration in photoionized ethane

Y Yang, H Ren, M Zhang, S Zhou, X Mu, X Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Neutral H2 formation via intramolecular hydrogen migration in hydrocarbon molecules plays
a vital role in many chemical and biological processes. Here, employing cold target recoil …

Ultrafast isomerization initiated by X-ray core ionization

CE Liekhus-Schmaltz, I Tenney, T Osipov… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Rapid proton migration is a key process in hydrocarbon photochemistry. Charge migration
and subsequent proton motion can mitigate radiation damage when heavier atoms absorb X …

Coulomb explosion imaging of small polyatomic molecules with ultrashort x-ray pulses

X Li, A Rudenko, MS Schöffler, N Anders… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
Ultrashort x-ray pulses from free-electron lasers can efficiently charge up and trigger the full
fragmentation of molecules. By coincident detection of up to five ions resulting from rapid …

Direct observation of an attosecond electron wave packet in a nitrogen molecule

T Okino, Y Furukawa, Y Nabekawa, S Miyabe… - Science …, 2015 - science.org
Capturing electron motion in a molecule is the basis of understanding or steering chemical
reactions. Nonlinear Fourier transform spectroscopy using an attosecond-pump/attosecond …

Coulomb-explosion imaging of concurrent photodissociation dynamics

M Burt, R Boll, JWL Lee, K Amini, H Köckert… - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
The dynamics following laser-induced molecular photodissociation of gas-phase CH 2 BrI at
271.6 nm were investigated by time-resolved Coulomb-explosion imaging using intense …

[HTML][HTML] Multiple ionization and Coulomb explosion of molecules, molecular complexes, clusters and solid surfaces

T Yatsuhashi, N Nakashima - Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology …, 2018 - Elsevier
Intense femtosecond lasers as well as X-ray free electron lasers provide new means to
produce multiply charged molecular cations. The fragmentation processes that these high …