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Phys Rev Lett
; 87(1): 013002, 2001 Jul 02.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-11461463
RESUMO
We demonstrate the use of a multiparticle coincidence technique to image the diffraction of an electron wave whose source is placed at a specific site in a free molecule. Core-level photoelectrons are used to illuminate the molecule from within. By measuring the vector momenta of two molecular fragments and the photoelectron, a richly structured electron diffraction pattern is obtained in a body-fixed frame of the randomly oriented molecule in the gas phase. We illustrate this technique for CO, creating a photoelectron from the C(1s) shell and scanning its energy from zero to 30 eV.