Molecular photoelectron spectroscopy

Nonadiabatic and Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy for Molecular Systems.

We quantify the nonadiabatic contributions to the vibronic sidebands of equilibrium and explicitly time-resolved nonequilibrium photoelectron spectra for a vibronic model system of trans-polyacetylene. Using exact diagonalization, we directly evaluate the sum-over-states expressions for the linear-response photocurrent. We show that spurious peaks appear in the Born-Oppenheimer approximation fo...

Photoelectron spectroscopy of the molecular anions, Li3O- and Na3O-.

The molecular anions, Li(3)O(-) and Na(3)O(-) were produced by laser vaporization and studied via anion photoelectron spectroscopy. Li(3)O(-) and Na(3)O(-) are the negative ions of the super-alkali neutral molecules, Li(3)O and Na(3)O. A two-photon process involving the photodetachment of electrons from the Li(3)O(-) and Na(3)O(-) anions and the photoionization of electrons from the resulting L...

Interrogation of Nonadiabatic Molecular Dynamics via Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy

He I ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy of benzene and pyridine in supersonic molecular beams using photoelectron imaging.

We performed He I ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS) of jet-cooled aromatic molecules using a newly developed photoelectron imaging (PEI) spectrometer. The PEI spectrometer can measure photoelectron spectra and photoelectron angular distributions at a considerably higher efficiency than a conventional spectrometer that uses a hemispherical energy analyzer. One technical problem with P...

High-resolution photoelectron spectroscopy

The evolution of photoelectron spectroscopy of neutral molecules in the gas phase from its first applications in the early 1960s to the present day is reviewed with emphasis on the description of methods that have contributed to improve the resolution. In early days, photoelectron spectroscopy was very successfully used to study the electronic structure of molecules. As the resolution improved,...