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- Title
Efficient Formation of Size-Selected Clusters upon Pickup of Dopants into Multiply Charged Helium Droplets.
- Authors
Kollotzek, Siegfried; Lushchikova, Olga V.; Tiefenthaler, Lukas; Zappa, Fabio; Scheier, Paul
- Abstract
Properties of clusters often depend critically on the exact number of atomic or molecular building blocks, however, most methods of cluster formation lead to a broad, size distribution and cluster intensity anomalies that are often designated as magic numbers. Here we present a novel approach of breeding size-selected clusters via pickup of dopants into multiply charged helium nanodroplets. The size and charge state of the initially undoped droplets and the vapor pressure of the dopant in the pickup region, determines the size of the dopant cluster ions that are extracted from the host droplets, via evaporation of the helium matrix in a collision cell filled with room temperature helium or via surface collisions. Size distributions of the selected dopant cluster ions are determined utilizing a high-resolution time of flight mass spectrometer. The comparison of the experimental data, with simulations taking into consideration the pickup probability into a shrinking He droplet due to evaporation during the pickup process, provides a simple explanation for the emergence of size distributions that are narrower than Poisson.
- Subjects
DOPING agents (Chemistry); COMPLEX ions; VAPOR pressure; HELIUM atom; MASS spectrometers; ATOMIC number; HELIUM
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022, Vol 23, Issue 7, p3613
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms23073613