Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Vibrational wavepacket dynamics in Fe carbene photosensitizer determined with femtosecond X-ray emission and scattering

  • Kristjan Kunnus,
  • Morgane Vacher,
  • Tobias C. B. Harlang,
  • Kasper S. Kjær,
  • Kristoffer Haldrup,
  • Elisa Biasin,
  • Tim B. van Driel,
  • Mátyás Pápai,
  • Pavel Chabera,
  • Yizhu Liu,
  • Hideyuki Tatsuno,
  • Cornelia Timm,
  • Erik Källman,
  • Mickaël Delcey,
  • Robert W. Hartsock,
  • Marco E. Reinhard,
  • Sergey Koroidov,
  • Mads G. Laursen,
  • Frederik B. Hansen,
  • Peter Vester,
  • Morten Christensen,
  • Lise Sandberg,
  • Zoltán Németh,
  • Dorottya Sárosiné Szemes,
  • Éva Bajnóczi,
  • Roberto Alonso-Mori,
  • James M. Glownia,
  • Silke Nelson,
  • Marcin Sikorski,
  • Dimosthenis Sokaras,
  • Henrik T. Lemke,
  • Sophie E. Canton,
  • Klaus B. Møller,
  • Martin M. Nielsen,
  • György Vankó,
  • Kenneth Wärnmark,
  • Villy Sundström,
  • Petter Persson,
  • Marcus Lundberg,
  • Jens Uhlig,
  • Kelly J. Gaffney

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14468-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Photoinduced non-adiabatic intramolecular processes have important applications but their mechanisms are challenging to explore. Here the authors detect and assign vibrational wavepacket dynamics in a Fe carbene complex by ultrafast X-ray emission spectroscopy and X-ray scattering, resolving nuclear and electronic motion.