Determining the structure of a molecule with laser-induced electron diffraction
Researchers show how laboratory-frame photoelectron spectra can be used directly to determine molecular with atomic precision from laser induced electron diffraction.
For this purpose, a reaction microscope was used that was developed and built at the MPIK in the group of Robert Moshammer from the department of Thomas Pfeifer. Here, this type of pulse spectroscopy, which goes back to Joachim Ullrich (formerly MPIK, since 2012 President of the PTB), has been successfully used for years to investigate time-resolved molecular dynamics in strong laser fields.
Original publication:
Molecular structure retrieval directly from laboratory-frame photoelectron spectra in laser-induced electron diffraction
A. Sanchez, K. Amini, S.-J. Wang, T. Steinle, B. Belsa, J. Danek, A. T. Le, X. Liu, R. Moshammer, T. Pfeifer, M. Richter, J. Ullrich, S. Gräfe, C. D. Lin and J. Biegert
Nature Communications 12, 1520 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21855-4