Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Few-cycle laser driven reaction nanoscopy on aerosolized silica nanoparticles

  • Philipp Rupp,
  • Christian Burger,
  • Nora G. Kling,
  • Matthias Kübel,
  • Sambit Mitra,
  • Philipp Rosenberger,
  • Thomas Weatherby,
  • Nariyuki Saito,
  • Jiro Itatani,
  • Ali S. Alnaser,
  • Markus B. Raschke,
  • Eckart Rühl,
  • Annika Schlander,
  • Markus Gallei,
  • Lennart Seiffert,
  • Thomas Fennel,
  • Boris Bergues,
  • Matthias F. Kling

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12580-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Understanding light-matter interaction is important for the control of energy and charge transfer at the fundamental level. Here the authors spatially resolve proton generation in laser-induced dissociative ionization of ethanol and water on SiO2 nanoparticles and discuss the role of surface charge distribution.