Spatial Separation of Molecular Conformers and ClustersDaniel Horke 1, Sebastian Trippel 1, Yuan-Pin Chang 1, Stephan Stern 1,2, Terry Mullins 1, Thomas Kierspel 1,3, Jochen Küpper 1,2,3
1Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, CFEL, DESY, 2Department of Physics, University of Hamburg, 3The Hamburg Center for Ultrafast Imaging, University of Hamburg
We present a technique that allows the spatial separation of different conformers or clusters present in a molecular beam. An electrostatic deflector is used to separate species by their mass-to-dipole moment ratio, leading to the production of gas-phase ensembles of a single conformer or cluster stoichiometry.
