Shedding New Light on Thermionic Electron Emission of Fullerenes
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Single-size thermometric measurements on a size distribution of neutral fullerenes.
We present measurements of the velocity distribution of electrons emitted from mass-selected neutral fullerenes, performed at the intracavity free electron laser FELICE. We make use of mass-specific vibrational resonances in the infrared domain to selectively heat up one out of a distribution of several fullerene species. Efficient energy redistribution leads to decay via thermionic emission. T...
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