Search Results - "Minitti, Michael"
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Ultrafast X-ray scattering reveals vibrational coherence following Rydberg excitation
Published in Nature chemistry (01-08-2019)“…The coherence and dephasing of vibrational motions of molecules constitute an integral part of chemical dynamics, influence material properties and underpin…”
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Simplicity Beneath Complexity: Counting Molecular Electrons Reveals Transients and Kinetics of Photodissociation Reactions
Published in Angewandte Chemie (International ed.) (06-05-2019)“…Time‐resolved pump–probe gas‐phase X‐ray scattering signals, extrapolated to zero momentum transfer, provide a measure of the number of electrons in a system,…”
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Ultrafast X-ray scattering offers a structural view of excited-state charge transfer
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (11-05-2021)“…Intramolecular charge transfer and the associated changes in molecular structure in N,N′-dimethylpiperazine are tracked using femtosecond gas-phase X-ray…”
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Observation of the molecular response to light upon photoexcitation
Published in Nature communications (01-05-2020)“…When a molecule interacts with light, its electrons can absorb energy from the electromagnetic field by rapidly rearranging their positions. This constitutes…”
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Brighter, faster, stronger: ultrafast scattering of free molecules
Published in Advances in physics: X (31-12-2023)“…Advances in FEL technologies have contributed remarkably to various scientific fields over the past decade, and ultrafast molecular dynamics is no exception…”
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Multi-objective Bayesian active learning for MeV-ultrafast electron diffraction
Published in Nature communications (03-06-2024)“…Ultrafast electron diffraction using MeV energy beams(MeV-UED) has enabled unprecedented scientific opportunities in the study of ultrafast structural dynamics…”
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Indirect excitation of ultrafast demagnetization
Published in Scientific reports (06-01-2016)“…Does the excitation of ultrafast magnetization require direct interaction between the photons of the optical pump pulse and the magnetic layer? Here, we…”
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Following Metal-to-Ligand Charge-Transfer Dynamics with Ligand and Spin Specificity Using Femtosecond Resonant Inelastic X‑ray Scattering at the Nitrogen K‑Edge
Published in The journal of physical chemistry letters (22-07-2021)“…We demonstrate for the case of photoexcited [Ru(2,2′-bipyridine)3]2+ how femtosecond resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) at the ligand K-edge allows…”
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Determining Orientations of Optical Transition Dipole Moments Using Ultrafast X‑ray Scattering
Published in The journal of physical chemistry letters (15-11-2018)“…Identification of the initially prepared, optically active state remains a challenging problem in many studies of ultrafast photoinduced processes. We show…”
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The Ring-Closing Reaction of Cyclopentadiene Probed with Ultrafast X‑ray Scattering
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. A, Molecules, spectroscopy, kinetics, environment, & general theory (06-05-2024)“…The dynamics of cyclopentadiene (CP) following optical excitation at 243 nm was investigated by time-resolved pump–probe X-ray scattering using 16.2 keV X-rays…”
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Electron-ion coincidence measurements of molecular dynamics with intense X-ray pulses
Published in Scientific reports (12-01-2021)“…Molecules can sequentially absorb multiple photons when irradiated by an intense X-ray pulse from a free-electron laser. If the time delay between two…”
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Disentangling Transient Charge Density and Metal–Ligand Covalency in Photoexcited Ferricyanide with Femtosecond Resonant Inelastic Soft X‑ray Scattering
Published in The journal of physical chemistry letters (21-06-2018)“…Soft X-ray spectroscopies are ideal probes of the local valence electronic structure of photocatalytically active metal sites. Here, we apply the selectivity…”
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Ultrafast Independent N−H and N−C Bond Deformation Investigated with Resonant Inelastic X‐Ray Scattering
Published in Angewandte Chemie (International ed.) (22-05-2017)“…The femtosecond excited‐state dynamics following resonant photoexcitation enable the selective deformation of N−H and N−C chemical bonds in 2‐thiopyridone in…”
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High-sensitivity x-ray/optical cross-correlator for next generation free-electron lasers
Published in Optics express (03-08-2020)“…We design and realize an arrival time diagnostic for ultrashort X-ray pulses achieving unprecedented high sensitivity in the soft X-ray regime via…”
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A deep UV trigger for ground-state ring-opening dynamics of 1,3-cyclohexadiene
Published in Science advances (06-09-2019)“…We explore the photo-induced kinetics of 1,3-cyclohexadiene upon excitation at 200 nm to the 3p state by ultrafast time-resolved, gas-phase x-ray scattering…”
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Ultrafast structural dynamics in Rydberg excited N,N,N′,N′-tetramethylethylenediamine: conformation dependent electron lone pair interaction and charge delocalization
Published in Chemical science (Cambridge) (01-09-2014)“…Two nitrogen atoms and a flexible carbon skeleton make N , N , N ′, N ′-tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA) an important model system to study the interplay of…”
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Atomic-Scale Perspective of Ultrafast Charge Transfer at a Dye–Semiconductor Interface
Published in The journal of physical chemistry letters (07-08-2014)“…Understanding interfacial charge-transfer processes on the atomic level is crucial to support the rational design of energy-challenge relevant systems such as…”
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Toward structural femtosecond chemical dynamics: imaging chemistry in space and time
Published in Faraday discussions (01-01-2014)“…We aim to observe a chemical reaction in real time using gas-phase X-ray diffraction. In our initial experiment at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), we…”
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Structural Dynamics in Floppy Systems: Ultrafast Conformeric Motions in Rydberg-Excited Triethylamine
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. A, Molecules, spectroscopy, kinetics, environment, & general theory (17-03-2011)“…Rotations about its three carbon−nitrogen bonds give triethylamine a complex, 3-dimensional potential energy landscape of conformeric structures. Electronic…”
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The Soft X-ray Research instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source
Published in Journal of synchrotron radiation (01-05-2015)“…The Soft X‐ray Research instrument provides intense ultrashort X‐ray pulses in the energy range 280–2000 eV. A diverse set of experimental stations may be…”
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