Issue 23, 2006

Molecular beams with a tunable velocity

Abstract

The merging of molecular beam methods with those of accelerator physics has yielded new tools to manipulate the motion of molecules. Over the last few years, decelerators, lenses, bunchers, traps, and storage rings for neutral molecules have been demonstrated. Molecular beams with a tunable velocity and with a tunable width of the velocity distribution can now be produced, and are expected to become a valuable tool in a variety of physical chemistry and chemical physics experiments. Here we present a compact molecular beam machine, capable of producing 3D spatially focused packets of state-selected accelerated or decelerated molecules.

Graphical abstract: Molecular beams with a tunable velocity

Article information

Article type
Invited Article
Submitted
15 Feb 2006
Accepted
04 Apr 2006
First published
24 Apr 2006

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2006,8, 2666-2676

Molecular beams with a tunable velocity

C. E. Heiner, H. L. Bethlem and G. Meijer, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2006, 8, 2666 DOI: 10.1039/B602260J

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