Extracting conformational structure information of benzene molecules via laser-induced electron diffraction

Ito, Yuta; Wang, Chuncheng; Le, Anh-Thu; Okunishi, Misaki; Ding, Dajun; Lin, C. D.; Ueda, Kiyoshi

doi:10.1063/1.4952602

Title: Extracting conformational structure information of benzene molecules via laser-induced electron diffraction

Journal Article · Sun May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Structural Dynamics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4952602· OSTI ID:1310357

Ito, Yuta ^[1]; Wang, Chuncheng ^[2]; Le, Anh-Thu ^[3]; Okunishi, Misaki ^[1]; Ding, Dajun ^[2]; Lin, C. D. ^[3]; Ueda, Kiyoshi ^[1]

Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
Institute of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, People's Republic of China
J. R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506-2604, USA

Here, we have measured the angular distributions of high energy photoelectrons of benzene molecules generated by intense infrared femtosecond laser pulses. These electrons arise from the elastic collisions between the benzene ions with the previously tunnel-ionized electrons that have been driven back by the laser field. Theory shows that laser-free elastic differential cross sections (DCSs) can be extracted from these photoelectrons, and the DCS can be used to retrieve the bond lengths of gas-phase molecules similar to the conventional electron diffraction method. From our experimental results, we have obtained the C-C and C-H bond lengths of benzene with a spatial resolution of about 10 pm. Our results demonstrate that laser induced electron diffraction (LIED) experiments can be carried out with the present-day ultrafast intense lasers already. Looking ahead, with aligned or oriented molecules, more complete spatial information of the molecule can be obtained from LIED, and applying LIED to probe photo-excited molecules, a “molecular movie” of the dynamic system may be created with sub-A°ngstrom spatial and few-ten femtosecond temporal resolutions.

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Research Organization:: Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-86ER13491

OSTI ID:: 1310357

Journal Information:: Structural Dynamics, Vol. 3, Issue 3; ISSN 2329-7778

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Country of Publication:: United States

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