Spatial Separation of Molecular Conformers and Clusters

Daniel Horke; Sebastian Trippel; Yuan-Pin Chang; Stephan Stern; Terry Mullins; Thomas Kierspel; Jochen K&#252;pper

doi:10.3791/51137

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Spatial Separation of Molecular Conformers and Clusters

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Spatial Separation of Molecular Conformers and Clusters

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10:37 min

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January 09, 2014

DOI:

10.3791/51137-v

DOI:

10.3791/51137-v

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10:37 min

January 09, 2014

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Daniel Horke¹, Sebastian Trippel¹, Yuan-Pin Chang¹, Stephan Stern^1,2, Terry Mullins¹, Thomas Kierspel^1,3, Jochen Küpper^1,2,3

¹Center for Free-Electron Laser Science,CFEL, DESY, ²Department of Physics,University of Hamburg, ³The Hamburg Center for Ultrafast Imaging,University of Hamburg

Summary

We present a technique that allows the spatial separation of different conformers or clusters present in a molecular beam. An electrostatic deflector is used to separate species by their mass-to-dipole moment ratio, leading to the production of gas-phase ensembles of a single conformer or cluster stoichiometry.