Femtosecond Time-Resolved Photochemistry of Molecules and Metal-Clusters

Abstract

We report experimental studies of femtosecond time-resolved multiphoton ionization and - fragmentation of molecules and metal-clusters in molecular beam experiments. In particular we studied the real time dynamics of ionization and fragmentation of the diatomic Na2 molecule, of the triatomic Na3 cluster and of larger sodium metal-clusters Nan.