Structure determination of the tetracene dimer in helium nanodroplets using femtosecond strong-field ionization by Constant Schouder, Adam S. Chatterley, Florent Calvo, Lars Christiansen, Henrik Stapelfeldt

“…Dimers of tetracene molecules are formed inside helium nanodroplets and identified through covariance analysis of the emission directions of kinetic tetracene cations stemming from femtosecond laser-induced Coulomb explosion. Next, the dimers are aligned in either one or three dimensions under field-free conditions by a nonresonant, moderately intense laser pulse. …”
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Is radiation damage the limiting factor in high-resolution single particle imaging with X-ray free-electron lasers? by C. Östlin, N. Timneanu, C. Caleman, A. V. Martin

“…These findings show a different aspect of the feasibility of high-resolution single particle imaging using free-electron lasers, where employing X-ray pulses of longer durations could still provide a useful diffraction signal above the noise due to the Coulomb explosion.…”
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Heavy N+ ion transfer in doubly charged N2Ar van der Waals cluster by XiaoLong Zhu, XiaoQing Hu, ShunCheng Yan, YiGeng Peng, WenTian Feng, DaLong Guo, Yong Gao, ShaoFeng Zhang, Amine Cassimi, JiaWei Xu, DongMei Zhao, DaPu Dong, Bang Hai, Yong Wu, JianGuo Wang, X. Ma

“…Here the authors reveal a heavy ion N+ transfer in a doubly charged Van der Waals cluster produced in collisions of the highly charged Ne8+ ion with N2Ar, leading to fragmentation of N+ and NAr+ via Coulomb explosion.…”
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Absolute Configuration of In Situ Crystallized (+)-γ-Decalactone by Michael Patzer, Nils Nöthling, Richard Goddard, Christian W. Lehmann

“…In favorable cases, this method of absolute configuration determination of pure liquid (bioactive) agents or liquid products from asymmetric catalysis is a convenient alternative to conventional methods of absolute structure determination, such as optical rotatory dispersion, vibrational circular dichroism, ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, use of chiral shift reagents in proton NMR and Coulomb explosion imaging.…”
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Generation of energetic negative ions from clusters using intense laser fields by R Rajeev, T Madhu Trivikram, K P M Rishad, V Narayanan, M Krishnamurthy

“…In nanoclusters, ionization is only stronger, resulting in very high charge densities that lead to Coulomb explosion and emission of accelerated highly charged ions. …”
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Coulomb Spike Modelling of Ion Sputtering of Amorphous Water Ice by Jean-Marc Costantini, Tatsuhiko Ogawa

“…Ion sputtering of amorphous water ice induced by electronic excitations is modelled by using the Coulomb explosion approach. The momentum transfer to ionized target atoms in the Coulomb field that is generated by swift ion irradiation is computed. …”
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Filming enhanced ionization in an ultrafast triatomic slingshot by Andrew J. Howard, Mathew Britton, Zachary L. Streeter, Chuan Cheng, Ruaridh Forbes, Joshua L. Reynolds, Felix Allum, Gregory A. McCracken, Ian Gabalski, Robert R. Lucchese, C. William McCurdy, Thomas Weinacht, Philip H. Bucksbaum

“…A promising method is laser-induced Coulomb Explosion Imaging (CEI) where a laser pulse rapidly ionizes many electrons from a molecule, causing the remaining ions to undergo Coulomb repulsion. …”
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Structural determination of argon trimer by Xiguo Xie, Chengyin Wu, Ying Yuan, Xin-Zheng Li, Cong Wu, Peng Wang, Yongkai Deng, Yunquan Liu, Qihuang Gong

“…Here we experimentally investigated multiple ionization and fragmentation dynamics of argon trimer by ultrashort intense laser fields and reconstructed their structures with Coulomb explosion technique. The measured structure distribution was compared with our finite-temperature ab initio calculations and the discrepancy was discussed. …”
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Hydrogen migration in inner-shell ionized halogenated cyclic hydrocarbons by Abdul Rahman Abid, Surjendu Bhattacharyya, Anbu Selvam Venkatachalam, Shashank Pathak, Keyu Chen, Huynh Van Sa Lam, Kurtis Borne, Debadarshini Mishra, René C. Bilodeau, Ileana Dumitriu, Nora Berrah, Minna Patanen, Daniel Rolles

“…Overall trends in the molecular-size-dependence of the experimentally observed kinetic energy releases and fragment kinetic energies are explained with the help of classical Coulomb explosion simulations.…”
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Near-Infrared Femtosecond Laser Ablation of Au-Coated Ni: Effect of Organic Fluids and Water on Crater Morphology, Ablation Efficiency and Hydrodynamic Properties of NiAu Nanoparti... by Niusha Lasemi, Günther Rupprechter, Gerhard Liedl, Dominik Eder

“…Hierarchical features in the crater periphery pointed to asymmetrical energy deposition or a residual effect of the Coulomb-explosion-initiating ablation. Significant beam deviation in 2-butanol caused maximum multiple scattering at the crater bottom. …”
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Tpx3Cam applications: 3D momentum reconstruction based on analytic time-walk correction and noise reduction by Xiaohong Hua, Yuliang Guo, Xincheng Wang, Zhenjie Shen, Yizhu Zhang, Chaochao Qin, Tian-Min Yan, Shuai Li, Yuhai Jiang

“…With the time-walk correction, 3D momentum distributions of N+ and N2+ from the N2 molecule’s Coulomb explosion were well extracted, paving a way for filming molecular dynamics in three dimensions with time-stamped velocity map imaging. …”
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Fundamental photoemission brightness limit from disorder induced heating by J M Maxson, I V Bazarov, W Wan, H A Padmore, C E Coleman-Smith

“…We also present simulations for beams undergoing Coulomb explosion at the photoemitter, and demonstrate that both the temperature growth and subsequent cooling must be characterized by correlated effects, as well as correlation-frozen dynamics. …”
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Time-resolved site-selective imaging of predissociation and charge transfer dynamics: the CH3I B-band by Forbes, R, Allum, F, Bari, S, Boll, R, Borne, K, Brouard, M, Bucksbaum, PH, Ekanayake, N, Erk, B, Howard, AJ, Johnsson, P, Lee, JWL, Manschwetus, B, Mason, R, Passow, C, Peschel, J, Rivas, DE, Rörig, A, Rouzée, A, Vallance, C, Ziaee, F, Rolles, D, Burt, M

“…The predissociation dynamics of the 6s (B2E) Rydberg state of gas-phase CH3I were investigated by time-resolved Coulomb-explosion imaging using extreme ultraviolet (XUV) free-electron laser pulses. …”

Multi-mass imaging in chemical reaction dynamics by Kockert, H

“…Evidence for the fragmentation of doubly and triply charged ions is also found, with these processes apparently proceeding via a two-body Coulomb explosion followed by further fragmentation of the molecular product ion.…”

Ultrafast imaging of spontaneous symmetry breaking in a photoionized molecular system by Min Li, Ming Zhang, Oriol Vendrell, Zhenning Guo, Qianru Zhu, Xiang Gao, Lushuai Cao, Keyu Guo, Qin-Qin Su, Wei Cao, Siqiang Luo, Jiaqing Yan, Yueming Zhou, Yunquan Liu, Zheng Li, Peixiang Lu

“…Here the authors use ultrafast Coulomb explosion imaging to map the evolution of the fundamental symmetry lowering process in photoionized methane within around 20fs.…”
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Ion acceleration in underdense plasmas by ultra-short laser pulses by A Lifschitz, F Sylla, S Kahaly, A Flacco, M Veltcheva, G Sanchez-Arriaga, E Lefebvre, V Malka

“…The acceleration results from a combination of target normal sheath acceleration and Coulomb explosion of a filament formed around the laser pulse propagation axis.…”
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Exploring the ultrafast and isomer-dependent photodissociation of iodothiophenes via site-selective ionization by Razmus, WO, Allum, F, Harries, J, Kumagai, Y, Nagaya, K, Bhattacharyya, S, Britton, M, Brouard, M, Bucksbaum, PH, Cheung, K, Crane, SW, Fushitani, M, Gabalski, I, Tatsuo, G, Ghrist, A, Heathcote, D, Hikosaka, Y, Hishikawa, A, Hockett, P, Jones, E, Kukk, E, Iwayama, H, Lam, HVS, McManus, JW, Milesevic, D, Mikosch, J, Minemoto, S, Niozu, A, Orr-Ewing, AJ, Owada, S, Rolles, D, Rudenko, A, Townsend, D, Ueda, K, Unwin, J, Vallance, C, Venkatachalam, AS, Wada, S-I, Walmsley, T, Warne, EM, Woodhouse, JL, Burt, M, Ashfold, MNR, Minns, RS, Forbes, R

“…At C–I separations below the critical distance for charge transfer (CT), charge can redistribute around the molecule leading to Coulomb explosion and charged fragments with high kinetic energy. …”

Molecular Dications in Planetary Atmospheric Escape by Stefano Falcinelli, Fernando Pirani, Michele Alagia, Luca Schio, Robert Richter, Stefano Stranges, Nadia Balucani, Franco Vecchiocattivi

“…Experimental determinations of the Kinetic Energy Released (KER) for ions originating from dissociations reactions, induced by Coulomb explosion of doubly charged molecular ions (molecular dications) produced by double photoionization of CO2, N2O and C2H2 molecules of interest in planetary atmospheres, are reported. …”
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Ultrafast Mechanism of Material Removal in the Femtosecond Laser Ablation of WS₂ and Its Diode Rectification Characteristics by Kai Wang, Zhicheng Chen, Xu Wu, Changji Pan, Feifei Wang, Jiaxing Wang, Ke Zhang, Yang Yang, Jingya Sun

“…The results of the numerical simulation and time-resolved transient reflectivity reveal the two different ablation mechanisms, which are coulomb explosion and phase explosion. The mechanism of material removal is distinguished by the critical threshold of 0.85 J/cm². …”
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Efficient generation of nitrogen vacancy centers by laser writing close to the diamond surface with a layer of silicon nanoballs by Youying Rong, Zhiping Ju, Qiang Ma, Shikang Liu, Chengda Pan, Botao Wu, Si Shen, E Wu

“…Finally, the formation mechanism of NV ^− centers and the role of Si nanoballs were explained via Coulomb explosion model. The method is demonstrated to be a promising approach to efficiently and rapidly fabricate NV ^− centers close to the surface of the diamond, which are significant in quantum sensing. …”
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