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MO: Fachverband Molekülphysik
MO 5: Posters 1: Novelties in Molecular Physics
MO 5.22: Poster
Monday, March 23, 2015, 17:00–19:00, C/Foyer
Laser-induced acoustic desorption of large molecules — •Zhipeng Huang1,3, Daniel A. Horke1, and Jochen Küpper1,2,3 — 1Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, Hamburg — 2Center for Ultrafast Imaging, University of Hamburg — 3Department of Physics, University of Hamburg
State-, conformer-, and size-selection of small neutral molecules can be achieved through the dispersion of the molecular beam with electric fields [1]. State-selected small molecules can then be well aligned and oriented by laser and static electric fields [2]. To extend these techniques to large molecules is currently limited by the ability to produce high densities of neutral large molecules in the gas-phase.
Laser-induced acoustic desorption (LIAD) is a promising technique for gentle and efficient preparation of intact neutral large molecules in vacuum. Here we demonstrate our newly set-up laser-induced acoustic desorption (LIAD) source, which is coupled to a time-of-flight mass spectrometer. We will discuss the efficiency of the source as a function of experimental parameters, such as laser pulse energy, duration and foil parameters, and discuss its potential for applications in x-ray or electron diffraction imaging.
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[2] H. Stapelfeldt et al., Rev. Mod. Phys. 75, 543 (2003); S. Trippel et al., Phys. Rev. A 89, 051401(R) (2014); arXiv:1409.2836