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Overview of all news from the Controlled Molecule Imaging Group
Disputation Evangelos Karamatskos
19 September 2019
Today, Evangelos Karamatskos very successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled "Molecular-Frame Angularly-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy" at Universität Hamburg and was awarded the degree "Dr. rer. nat." with a grade of summa cum laude (very good with distinction).
Scientists film molecular rotation
29 July 2019
Scientists have used precisely tuned pulses of laser light to film the ultrafast rotation of a molecule. The resulting “molecular movie” tracks one and a half revolutions of carbonyl sulphide (OCS) – a rod-shaped molecule consisting of one oxygen, one carbon and one sulphur atom – taking place within 125 trillionths of a second, at a high temporal and spatial resolution. The team headed by DESY’s Jochen Küpper from the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) and Arnaud Rouzée from the Max Born Institute in Berlin are presenting their findings in the journal Nature Communications. CFEL is a cooperation of DESY, the Max Planck Society and Universität Hamburg.
Our article is in the Top 50 Nature Communications chemistry and materials science articles published in 2018
15 July 2019
Disputation Zhipeng Huang
16 May 2019
On Thursday, 16 May 2019, Zhipeng Huang successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled “Development and Characterization of a Laser-Induced Desorption Source for FEL Experiments”. The disputation took place in CFEL. Congratulations Zhipeng!
CMI workshop and retreat 2019
07 May 2019
This year, the annual CMI group workshop and retreat took place in Alt Duvenstedt, Schleswig Holstein.
Cherry picking molecules from the soup: Spatial separation of pyrrole and pyrrole-water clusters
29 January 2019
We demonstrated the spatial separation of pyrrole-water1 clusters with practically 100 % purity from the other atomic and molecular species in a supersonically-expanded beam of pyrrole and traces of water seeded in high-pressure helium gas.