Extraction of geometrical structure of ethylene molecules by laser-induced electron diffraction combined with ab initio scattering calculations
Abstract
In this paper, we measured angle-resolved high-energy electron spectra emitted from $${\mathrm{C}}_{2}{\mathrm{H}}_{4}$$ in an intense laser field, extracted field-free electron-ion elastic scattering differential cross sections (DCSs) according to quantitative rescattering theory, and obtained molecular contrast factors (MCFs) subtracting the incoherent sum of DCSs of all the atoms in the molecule. Comparing the results with ab initio scattering calculations and employing least-squares fitting, we have extracted the C-C and C-H bond lengths of the molecule with $${\sim}5$$ % uncertainty. Finally, this approach opens the way to retrieve the structure of hydrocarbon molecules, potentially at high temporal resolution, employing low collision energies where electron scattering is sensitive to the hydrogen atoms; and where the independent atom model calculations may fail to reproduce the experimentally extracted MCF.
- Authors:
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- Tohoku Univ., Sendai (Japan). Inst. of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials
- Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States). Dept. of Chemistry
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); Robert A. Welch Foundation (United States); Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1461123
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1408930
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012198; A-1020; JP17K05739
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review A
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 96; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9926
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; strong electromagnetic field effects; strong-field-induced spectra
Citation Formats
Ito, Yuta, Carranza, Richard, Okunishi, Misaki, Lucchese, Robert R., and Ueda, Kiyoshi. Extraction of geometrical structure of ethylene molecules by laser-induced electron diffraction combined with ab initio scattering calculations. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.96.053414.
Ito, Yuta, Carranza, Richard, Okunishi, Misaki, Lucchese, Robert R., & Ueda, Kiyoshi. Extraction of geometrical structure of ethylene molecules by laser-induced electron diffraction combined with ab initio scattering calculations. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.96.053414
Ito, Yuta, Carranza, Richard, Okunishi, Misaki, Lucchese, Robert R., and Ueda, Kiyoshi. Wed .
"Extraction of geometrical structure of ethylene molecules by laser-induced electron diffraction combined with ab initio scattering calculations". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.96.053414. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1461123.
@article{osti_1461123,
title = {Extraction of geometrical structure of ethylene molecules by laser-induced electron diffraction combined with ab initio scattering calculations},
author = {Ito, Yuta and Carranza, Richard and Okunishi, Misaki and Lucchese, Robert R. and Ueda, Kiyoshi},
abstractNote = {In this paper, we measured angle-resolved high-energy electron spectra emitted from ${\mathrm{C}}_{2}{\mathrm{H}}_{4}$ in an intense laser field, extracted field-free electron-ion elastic scattering differential cross sections (DCSs) according to quantitative rescattering theory, and obtained molecular contrast factors (MCFs) subtracting the incoherent sum of DCSs of all the atoms in the molecule. Comparing the results with ab initio scattering calculations and employing least-squares fitting, we have extracted the C-C and C-H bond lengths of the molecule with ${\sim}5$ % uncertainty. Finally, this approach opens the way to retrieve the structure of hydrocarbon molecules, potentially at high temporal resolution, employing low collision energies where electron scattering is sensitive to the hydrogen atoms; and where the independent atom model calculations may fail to reproduce the experimentally extracted MCF.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevA.96.053414},
journal = {Physical Review A},
number = 5,
volume = 96,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Nov 15 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Wed Nov 15 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}
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