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A: Fachverband Atomphysik
A 37: Clusters IV (joint session MO/A)
A 37.6: Talk
Thursday, March 8, 2018, 12:00–12:15, PA 2.150
Nanodroplet production and characterization — •Amine Gourram1, Armando Estillore1, Daniel Horke1,3, and Jochen Kuepper1,2,3 — 1Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, Hamburg, Germany — 2Department of Physics, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany — 3The Hamburg Center for Ultrafast Imaging, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
X-ray diffractive imaging of single molecules or nanoparticles at free-electron lasers allows the extraction of structural information at sub-nanometer resolution [1]. However, this requires the efficient production and delivery of isolated samples into the x-ray beam. We present our proposed aerosol source for the efficient production of a high-density aerosol of sub-100 nm nanoparticles, based on electrospray aerosolisation. The produced aerosol source will be characterized regarding its efficiency and density for different nanoparticle types and sizes using optical light scattering measurement [2] and differential particle mobility analysers.
[1] Seibert et al., Nature 470, 78-81 (2011)
[2] Awel et al., Opt. Expr. 24, 6507-6521 (2016)