Picosecond time-resolved x-ray absorption spectroscopy of solvated organometallic complexes

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, , Citation W Gawelda et al 2005 Phys. Scr. 2005 102 DOI 10.1238/Physica.Topical.115a00102

1402-4896/2005/T115/102

Abstract

We describe an experimental setup, which measures transient chemical changes of photoexcited solutes in disordered systems via time-resolved X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) with picosecond temporal resolution. The setup combines a femtosecond amplified laser with picosecond x-ray pulses at beamline 5.3.1 at the Advanced Light Source in Berkeley, USA. New results on time-resolved XAS used for probing both the electronic and the geometric modifications of a photoexcited tris-(2,2'-bipyridine) ruthenium (II), [RuII(bpy)3]2+ in water solution are presented.

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10.1238/Physica.Topical.115a00102