Femtosecond photoelectron imaging of aligned polyanions: Probing molecular dynamics through the electron-anion Coulomb repulsion

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 834-838

  Horke, Daniel A ^a   Chatterley, Adam S ^a   Verlet, Jan R R ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COULOMB REPULSIONS; FEMTOSECONDS; GAS-PHASE SYSTEMS; MOLECULAR SKELETON; PHOTOELECTRON ANGULAR DISTRIBUTIONS; PHOTOELECTRON ANISOTROPY; PHOTOELECTRON IMAGING; POLYANIONS; PUMP-PROBE EXPERIMENTS; RESONANCE EXCITATION; ROTATIONAL COHERENCES; ROTATIONAL DYNAMICS; TIME-RESOLVED PHOTOELECTRON IMAGING; ULTRA-FAST;

DYNAMICS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOELECTRONS; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 84859567151     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz3000933     Document Type: Article

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