Squibb, R. J.; Sapunar, Marin; Ponzi, A.; Richter, R.; Kivimäki, A.; Plekan, O.; Finetti, P.; Sisourat, N.; Zhaunerchyk, V.; Marchenko, T.; Journel, L.; Guillemin, R.; Cucini, R.; Coreno, M.; Grazioli, C.; Di Fraia, M.; Callegari, C.; Prince, K. C.; Decleva, P.; Simon, M.; Eland, J. H. D.; Došlić, Nađa; Feifel, R.; Piancastelli, M. N. (2018) Acetylacetone photodynamics at a seeded freeelectron laser. Nature Communications, 9 (1). ISSN 2041-1723
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Abstract
The first steps in photochemical processes, such as photosynthesis or animal vision, involve changes in electronic and geometric structure on extremely short time scales. Time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy is a natural way to measure such changes, but has been hindered hitherto by limitations of available pulsed light sources in the vacuum-ultraviolet and soft Xray spectral region, which have insufficient resolution in time and energy simultaneously. The unique combination of intensity, energy resolution, and femtosecond pulse duration of the FERMI-seeded free-electron laser can now provide exceptionally detailed information on photoexcitation–deexcitation and fragmentation in pump-probe experiments on the 50- femtosecond time scale. For the prototypical system acetylacetone we report here electron spectra measured as a function of time delay with enough spectral and time resolution to follow several photoexcited species through well-characterized individual steps, interpreted using state-of-the-art static and dynamics calculations. These results open the way for investigations of photochemical processes in unprecedented detail.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Acetylacetone ; photodynamics ; seeded free electron laser |
| Subjects: | NATURAL SCIENCES > Chemistry |
| Divisions: | Division of Physical Chemistry |
| Depositing User: | Nađa Došlić |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jul 2018 11:22 |
| URI: | http://fulir.irb.hr/id/eprint/4104 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41467-017-02478-0 |
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