Conveners
Thursday AM
- Britta Redlich (FELIX Laboratory, Radboud University)
Small clusters in the gas phase are ideal model systems for investigating the fundamental aspects of complex reactions [1,2]. The good control over cluster size, composition, and charge state allows distinguishing the effects of these parameters on the studied reactions. In the high-vacuum conditions of a gas-phase experiment there are no contaminating agents that could affect the reaction...
Magnetism is a macroscopic phenomenon that at microscopic level occurs due to exchange interactions, whose typical range, or more simply length scale, is determined by the spatial extent of the quantum mechanical wavefunctions. Confinement of these wavefunctions by for example the presence of a surface leads to many unusual magnetic phenomena. A natural question, in light of these...
The immense spectral brightness of infrared free-electron lasers is ideally suited to resonantly drive large magnitude lattice vibrations in dielectric crystals. In particular for optical phonons, their many ps-long life times result in sharp spectral resonances in the mid- to far-infrared, perfectly matching the tuning range and narrow bandwidth of IR-FELs. In this talk, I will give several...
Methane, a key fossil fuel, is difficult to transport and difficult to convert to other energy rich chemicals because of the strong CH bond; however, several third-row metal cations readily activate methane to form MCH$_2^+$, a metal carbene, and H$_2$.
In a 2013 spectroscopic investigation using the FELICE intracavity free-electron laser, we have been able to identify product structures of...
