Confinement resonances in photoionization of endohedral Xe@C₆₀⁺

Photoionisation of ions with synchrotron radiation: from ions in space to atoms in cages

“…At the same time, sample purity is not an issue since unwanted beam components can be efficiently suppressed by the in-situ mass/charge analysis. The classes of cluster ions that have been most intensely studied so far are charged fullerenes [66,67] and endohedral fullerenes [68][69][70][71].…”

“…Although this phenomenon was investigated theoretically at different levels of sophistication for more than a decade, an experimental verification by a photoabsorption experiment with endohedral fullerenes in the gas phase was achieved only recently [69,70]. This long delay is due to the challenging experimental difficulties that had to be overcome before conclusive results could be measured.…”

Contribution of synchrotron radiation to photoactivation studies of biomolecular ions in the gas phase

“…However, although an impressive amount of photoionization data has been obtained on atoms (Kjeldsen, ), little has been reported so far on molecular targets. Hitherto, studies have only been reported on CO + (Andersen et al, ; Hinojosa et al, ), and some fullerenes molecules (Scully et al, ; Kilcoyne et al, ). The difficulty in studying relatively small molecular ions in a merged‐beam experiment is that often the doubly charged molecules are not stable with respect to dissociation.…”

Photoemission from hybrid states of Cl@C60 before and after a stabilizing charge transfer

“…Significant success in the synthesis of endofullerene molecules -systems of an atom or a smaller molecule incarcerated within the fullerene cage [1] -has spawned a series of experiments [2][3][4] using merged beam techniques at Berkeley Advanced Light Source. Experiments accessed photoionization properties of these materials in gas phase.…”