Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

FEL

The following papers on the FHI FEL project have been presented at conferences:

1. 2019: The FHI FEL Upgrade Design, presented at the 39th International Free-Electron Laser Conference
2. 2017: Pulse shape characterisation and synchronization with external short-pulse lasers, presented at the 38th International Free-Electron Laser Conference
3. 2015: Facility description, presented at the SPIE Conference Advances in X-ray Free-Electron Lasers Instrumentation III, Sandra G. Biedron, Editor, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 9512, 95121L (2015).
   W. Schöllkopf et al., “The new IR and THz FEL Facility at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin,” http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2182284 Copyright 2015 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic reproduction and distribution, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper are prohibited.
   
4. 2014: Facility Overview, presented at the 36th International Free-Electron Laser Conference
5. 2013: Control System, presented at the 14th International ICALEPCS Conference
6. 2013: System Overview, presented at the 35th International Free-Electron Laser Conference
7. 2013: Control System, presented at the 35th International Free-Electron Laser Conference
8. 2012: First Lasing, presented at the 34th International Free-Electron Laser Conference
9. 2012: Commissioning report, presented at the 34th International Free-Electron Laser Conference
10. 2012: Undulator, presented at the 34th International Free-Electron Laser Conference
11. 2011: Status report, presented at the 33nd International Free-Electron Laser Conference
12. 2011: Status report, presented at the 2nd International Particle Accelerator Conference
13. 2010: Status report, presented at the 32nd International Free-Electron Laser Conference

The following papers describing results gained by user groups of the FHI FEL have been published:

1. 2020: C. Kirschbaum et al., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 59, xxxx–xxxx, (2020); Resolving Sphingolipid Isomers Using Cryogenic Infrared Spectroscopy
   

   German version: Angew. Chem. 132, xxxx–xxxx (2020); Unterscheidung von isomeren Sphingolipiden mittels kryogener Infrarotspektroskopie

   Group of Kevin Pagel in collaboration with the groups of Stephen Blanksby (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australien) and Christoph Arenz (HU Berlin).
2. 2020: Meiye Jia et al., J. Phys. Chem. C 124, 7624–7633 (2020); Hydrogen Adsorption and Dissociation on Al_nRh₂⁺ (n = 1 to 9) Clusters: Steric and Coordination Effects
   
   Group of André Fielicke (FHI) in collaboration with the groups of Ewald Janssens and Minh Tho Nguyen (KU Leuven, Belgium).
3. 2020: J. A. DeVine et al., Mol. Phys. 118, e1749953 (2020); Infrared photodissociation spectroscopy of D₂-tagged CH₃CO₂⁻(H₂O)₀₋₂ anions
   
   Group of Knut Asmis (FHI & Leipzig University) in collaboration with the group of Dan Neumark (UC Berkeley, USA).
4. 2020: Yun Liu et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 142, 2665–2671 (2020); Elucidating Surface Structure with Action Spectroscopy
   Group of Helmut Kuhlenbeck (FHI Dept. Chemical Physics; Prof H.J. Freund) in collaboration with the group of Joachim Sauer (HU Berlin).
5. 2019: R. Kiessling et al., ACS Photonics 6, 3017–3023 (2019); Surface Phonon Polariton Resonance Imaging Using Long-Wave Infrared-Visible Sum-Frequency Generation Microscopy
   
   Group of Alexander Paarmann (FHI) in collaboration with Joshua D. Caldwell (Vanderbilt University, USA) and Alexander J. Giles (US Naval Research Laboratory, USA).
6. 2019: Y.-K. Li et al., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 58, 18868–18872 (2019); Direct Identification of Acetaldehyde Formation and Characterization of the Active Site in the [VPO₄]^+•/C₂H₄ Couple By Gas‐Phase Vibrational Spectroscopy
   
   Group of Knut Asmis (FHI & Leipzig University) in collaboration with the group of Helmut Schwarz (TU Berlin).
7. 2019: J. B. Lee et al., Org. Lett. 21, 7004–7008 (2019); Annulative π‐Extension of Unactivated Benzene Derivatives through Nondirected C−H Arylation
   
   Group of Gert von Helden (FHI) in collaboration with Jongcheol Seo (POSTECH, South Korea) as well as Bum Suk Zhao and Sung You Hong (UNIST, South Korea).
8. 2019: M. Lettow et al., Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 411, 4637–4645 (2019); The role of the mobile proton in fucose migration
   
   Groups of Kevin Pagel (FU Berlin & FHI) and Gert von Helden (FHI).
9. 2019: J. Vanbuel et al., Z. Phys. Chem. 233, 799–812 (2019); Hydrogen Chemisorption on Doubly Vanadium Doped Aluminum Clusters
   
   Group of André Fielicke (FHI) in collaboration with the groups of Ewald Janssens and Minh Tho Nguyen (KU Leuven, Belgium).
10. 2019: D. A. Thomas et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 141, 5815–5823 (2019); Characterization of a trans-trans Carbonic Acid-Fluoride Complex by Infrared Action Spectroscopy in Helium Nanodroplets
    
    Group of Gert von Helden (FHI).
11. 2019: E. Mucha et al., Chem. Sci. 10, 1272-1284 (2019); In-depth structural analysis of glycans in the gas phase
    
    Group of Kevin Pagel (FU Berlin & FHI).
12. 2019: S. Debnath et al., J. Phys. Chem. C 123, 8439-8446 (2019); CO₂ Adsorption on Ti₃O₆^‐: A Novel Carbonate Binding Motif
    
    Group of Knut Asmis (FHI & Leipzig University) in collaboration with Min Gao, Satoshi Maeda, Tetsuya Taketsugu, and Andrey Lyalin (Hokkaido University, Japan) and the group of Dan Neumark (UC Berkeley, USA).
13. 2019: M. Marianski et al., J. Phys. Chem. C 123, 7845−7853 (2019); Structural Characterization of Molybdenum Oxide Nanoclusters Using Ion Mobility Spectrometry–Mass Spectrometry and Infrared Action Spectroscopy
    
    Group of Gert von Helden (FHI) in collaboration with the group of Annette Trunschke (FHI).
14. 2018: E. Mucha et al., Nature Communications 9, 4174 (2018); Unravelling the structure of glycosyl cations via cold-ion infrared spectroscopy
    
    Groups of Kevin Pagel (FU Berlin & FHI) and Gert von Helden (FHI) in collaboration with the group of Peter Seeberger (MPI für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung).
15. 2018: A. E. Green et al., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 57,14822–14826 (2018); IR Signature of Size‐Selective CO₂ Activation on Small Platinum Cluster Anions, Pt_n^‐ (n = 4‐7)
    
    Group of André Fielicke (FHI) in collaboration with the group of Stuart Mackenzie (University of Oxford, UK).
16. 2018: R. Kiessling et al., Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 21, 080702 (2018); Femtosecond single-shot timing and direct observation of subpulse formation in an infrared free-electron laser
    
    Group of Alexander Paarmann (FHI) in collaboration with Bill Colson (Compass Scientific Engineering, USA).
17. 2018: M. Jia et al., J. Phys. Chem. C 122, 18247–18255 (2018); Size Dependent H₂ Adsorption on Al_nRh⁺ (n = 1–12) Clusters
    
    Group of André Fielicke (FHI) in collaboration with the group of Ewald Janssens (KU Leuven, Belgium).
18. 2018: Z. Wu et al., Rev. Sci. Instrum. 89, 083107 (2018); Surface action spectroscopy with rare gas messenger atoms
    Group of Helmut Kuhlenbeck (FHI).
19. 2018: N. C. Passler et al., Nano Lett. 18, 4285−4292 (2018).; Strong Coupling of Epsilon-Near-Zero Phonon Polaritons in Polar Dielectric Heterostructures
    Group of Alexander Paarmann (FHI) in collaboration with the groups of Joshua D. Caldwell (Vanderbilt, USA), Stefan A. Maier (Imperial College London, UK), and Simone De Liberato (University of Southampton, UK).
20. 2018: D. A. Thomas et al., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 57, 10615–10619 (2018); Ground‐State Structure of the Proton‐Bound Formate Dimer by Cold‐Ion Infrared Action Spectroscopy
    
    Group of Gert von Helden (FHI).
21. 2018: S. Debnath et al., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 57, 7448–7452 (2018); Experimental Identification of the Active Site in the Heteronuclear [AlVO_x]^+•/CO/N₂O (x = 3, 4) Redox Couples by Gas-Phase IR Spectroscopy

    German version: Angew. Chem. 130, 7570–7574 (2018); Experimentelle Bestimmung des aktiven Zentrums im heteronuklearen Redox-System [AlVO_x]^+•/CO/N₂O (x = 3, 4) durch Gasphasen-Infrarotspektroskopie

    Group of Knut Asmis (FHI & Leipzig University) in collaboration with the group of Helmut Schwarz (TU Berlin).
22. 2018: E. Mucha et al., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 57, 7440–7443 (2018); Fucose Migration in Intact Protonated Glycan Ions: A Universal Phenomenon in Mass Spectrometry
    
    Groups of Kevin Pagel (FU Berlin & FHI) and Gert von Helden (FHI) in collaboration with the group of Peter Seeberger (MPI für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung).
23. 2018: C. J. Winta et al., Phys. Rev. B 97, 094108 (2018); Second-harmonic phonon spectroscopy of α-quartz
    Group of Alexander Paarmann (FHI).
24. 2018: D. A. Thomas et al., J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 9, 2305−2310 (2018); Vibrational Spectroscopy of Fluoroformate, FCO₂^-, Trapped in Helium Nanodroplets
    
    Group of Gert von Helden (FHI).
25. 2018: V. Scutelnic et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140, 7554–7560 (2018); The Structure of the Protonated Serine Octamer
    
    Group of Gert von Helden (FHI) in collaboration with the groups of Thomas R. Rizzo and Ursula Rothlisberger (EPFL, Switzerland), and Mike Bowers (UC Santa Barbara, USA).
26. 2018: T. K. Esser et al., J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 9, 798−803 (2018); Deconstructing Prominent Bands in the Terahertz Spectra of H₇O₃⁺ and H₉O₄⁺: Intermolecular Modes in Eigen Clusters
    
    Group of Knut Asmis (FHI & Leipzig University) in collaboration with the group of Joel Bowman (Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA).
27. 2018: W. Hoffmann et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140, 244–249 (2018); NFGAIL Amyloid Oligomers: The Onset of Beta-Sheet Formation and the Mechanism for Fibril Formation
    Group of Gert von Helden (FHI) in collaboration with Kevin Pagel (FU Berlin & FHI) and Mike Bowers (UC Santa Barbara, USA).
28. 2017: J. Vanbuel et al., Top. Catal. 61, 62–70 (2018); Competitive Molecular and Dissociative Hydrogen Chemisorption on Size Selected Doubly Rhodium Doped Aluminum Clusters
    
    Group of André Fielicke (FHI) in collaboration with the group of Ewald Janssens (KU Leuven, Belgium).
29. 2017: M. L. Weichman et al., Top. Catal. 61, 92–105 (2018); Dissociative Water Adsorption on Gas-Phase Titanium Dioxide Cluster Anions Probed with Infrared Photodissociation Spectroscopy
    
    Group of Knut Asmis (FHI & Leipzig University) in collaboration with the group of Dan Neumark (UC Berkeley, USA).
30. 2017: J. Vanbuel et al., Chem. Eur. J. 23, 15638-15643 (2017); Hydrogen Chemisorption on Singly Vanadium-Doped Aluminum Clusters
    
    Group of André Fielicke (FHI) in collaboration with the group of Ewald Janssens (KU Leuven, Belgium).
31. 2017: Z. Wu et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 136101 (2017); Vibrational action spectroscopy of solids: New surface-sensitive technique
    Group of Helmut Kuhlenbeck (FHI Dept. Chemical Physics; Prof H.J. Freund) in collaboration with Volker Staemmler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).
32. 2017: X. Song et al., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 19, 23154 (2017); Excess Charge Driven Dissociative Hydrogen Adsorption on Ti₂O₄^-
    Group of Knut Asmis (FHI & Leipzig University) in collaboration with Min Gao, Satoshi Maeda, Tetsuya Taketsugu, and Andrey Lyalin (Hokkaido University, Japan).
33. 2017: S. Warnke et al., J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. 28, 638–646 (2017); From Compact to String-The Role of Secondary and Tertiary Structure in Charge-Induced Unzipping of Gas-Phase Proteins
    Group of Gert von Helden (FHI) in collaboration with Kevin Pagel (FU Berlin & FHI).
34. 2017: J. Seo et al., Nature Chemistry 9, 1263–1268 (2017); Infrared spectrum and structure of the homochiral serine octamer-dichloride complex
    Group of Gert von Helden (FHI) in collaboration with Kevin Pagel (FU Berlin & FHI) and Mike Bowers (UC Santa Barbara, USA).
35. 2017: J. Seo et al., Int. J. Mass Spectrum. 429, 115-120 (2018); Side-chain effects on the structures of protonated amino acid dimers: A gas-phase infrared spectroscopy study
    Group of Gert von Helden (FHI) in collaboration with Kevin Pagel (FU Berlin & FHI) and Mike Bowers (UC Santa Barbara, USA).
36. 2017: E. Mucha et al., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 56, 11248–11251 (2017); Glycan Fingerprinting using Cold-Ion Infrared Spectroscopy

    German version: Angew. Chem. 129, 11400–11404 (2017); Fingerabdrücke für Glykane durch Spektroskopie kalter Ionen

    Groups of Gert von Helden (FHI) and Kevin Pagel (FU Berlin & FHI) in collaboration with the group of Peter Seeberger (MPI für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung).
37. 2017: N. C. Passler et al., ACS Photonics 4 (5), 1048–1053 (2017); Second Harmonic Generation from Critically Coupled Surface Phonon Polaritons
    
    Group of Alexander Paarmann (FHI).
38. 2017: N. X. Truong et al., J. Phys. Chem. C 121, 9560−9571 (2017); Infrared Spectroscopy and Structures of Boron-Doped Silicon Clusters (Si_nB_m, n=3-8, m=1-2)
    
    Group of André Fielicke (TU Berlin & FHI) in collaboration with the group of Otto Dopfer (TU Berlin).
39. 2017: M. Fagiani et al., J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 8, 1272–1277 (2017); Dissociative Water Adsorption by Al₃O₄⁺ in the Gas Phase
    
    Group of Knut Asmis (FHI & Leipzig University) in collaboration with the group of Joachim Sauer (HU Berlin).
40. 2017: X. Song et al., Chem. Phys. Chem. 18 (8), 868–872 (2017); Gas Phase Vibrational Spectroscopy of the Aluminum Oxide Anions (Al₂O₃)_1-6AlO₂^-
    

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    Group of Knut Asmis (FHI & Leipzig University) in collaboration with the group of Joachim Sauer (HU Berlin).
41. 2017: P. Ferrari et al., Chem. Eur. J. 23, 4120–4127 (2017); Effects of Charge Transfer on the Adsorption of CO on Small Molybdenum-Doped Platinum Clusters
    
    Group of André Fielicke (TU Berlin & FHI) in collaboration with the groups of Ewald Janssens and Minh Tho Nguyen (KU Leuven, Belgium).
42. 2017: M. Fagiani et al., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 56, 501–504, (2017); Structure and Fluxionality of B₁₃⁺ Probed by Infrared Photodissociation Spectroscopy
    

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    German version: Angew. Chem. 129, 515–519 (2017); Untersuchung der Struktur und Dynamik des B₁₃⁺ mithilfe der Infrarot-Photodissoziationsspektroskopie

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    Groups of Knut Asmis and Thomas Heine (both Leipzig University) in collaboration with André Fielicke (TU Berlin & FHI).
43. 2017: J. Seo et al., Nature Chemistry 9, 39–44 (2017); An infrared spectroscopy approach to follow β-sheet formation in peptide amyloid assemblies
    
    Group of Kevin Pagel (FU Berlin & FHI) in collaboration with Gert von Helden (FHI) and Mike Bowers (UC Santa Barbara, USA).
44. 2016: J. Seo et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 138, 16315–16321 (2016); Stacking Geometries of Early Protoporphyrin IX Aggregates Revealed by Gas-Phase Infrared Spectroscopy
    Group of Gert von Helden (FHI).
45. 2016: I. Razdolski et al., Nano Lett. 16, 6954−6959 (2016); Resonant Enhancement of Second-Harmonic Generation in the Mid-Infrared Using Localized Surface Phonon Polaritons in Subdiffractional Nanostructures
    
    Group of Alexander Paarmann (FHI) in collaboration with the groups of Joshua D. Caldwell (NRL, Washington DC, USA), Stefan A. Maier (Imperial College London, UK), and Yiguo Chen (National University of Singapore).
46. 2016: A. Paarmann et al., Phys. Rev. B 94, 134312 (2016); Effects of crystal anisotropy on optical phonon resonances in midinfrared second harmonic response of SiC
    Group of Alexander Paarmann (FHI).
47. 2016: G. von Helden, W. Schöllkopf, K. Pagel, Jahrbuch der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft 2016; Structures of peptide aggregates investigated with the new Fritz Haber Institute free electron laser
    
    Group of Gert von Helden (FHI) in collaboration with Kevin Pagel (FU Berlin & FHI).
48. 2016: J. Seo et al., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 55, 14173–14176 (2016); Retention of Native Protein Structures in the Absence of Solvent: A Coupled Ion Mobility and Spectroscopic Study
    
    Group of Gert von Helden (FHI) in collaboration with Kevin Pagel (FU Berlin & FHI) and Mike Bowers (UC Santa Barbara, USA).
49. 2016: J. Seo et al., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 18, 25474–25482 (2016); The impact of environment and resonance effects on the site of protonation of aminobenzoic acid derivatives
    
    Group of Gert von Helden (FHI) in collaboration with Kevin Pagel (FU Berlin & FHI) and Mike Bowers (UC Santa Barbara, USA).
50. 2016: M. Fagiani et al., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 18, 26743–26754 (2016); Gas Phase Vibrational Spectroscopy of the Protonated Water Pentamer: The Role of Isomers and Nuclear Quantum Effects
    
    Group of Knut Asmis (FHI & Leipzig University) in collaboration with the group of Mark Johnson (Yale University, USA) as well as Marie-Pierre Gaigeot and Riccardo Spezia (Université d’Evry, France).
51. 2016: W. Hoffmann et al., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 18, 19950-19954 (2016); Assessing the stability of alanine-based helices by conformer-selective IR spectroscopy
    
    Group of Gert von Helden (FHI) in collaboration with Kevin Pagel (FU Berlin & FHI).
52. 2016: A. Yanagimachi et al., J. Phys. Chem. C 120 (26), 14209–14215 (2016); Size-Specific, Dissociative Activation of Carbon Dioxide by Cobalt Cluster Anions
    
    Group of André Fielicke (TU Berlin & FHI) in collaboration with the group of Tatsuya Tsukuda (University of Tokyo).
53. 2016: X. Song et al., J. Chem. Phys. 144, 244305 (2016); Gas phase structures and charge localization in small aluminum oxide anions: Infrared photodissociation spectroscopy and electronic structure calculations
    
    Group of Knut Asmis (FHI & Leipzig University) in collaboration with the group of Joachim Sauer (HU Berlin).
54. 2016: M. L. Weichman et al., J. Chem. Phys. 144, 124308 (2016); Gas phase vibrational spectroscopy of cold (TiO₂)_n^- (n = 3–8) clusters
    
    Group of Knut Asmis (FHI & Leipzig University) in collaboration with the group of Dan Neumark (UC Berkeley, USA).
55. 2016: A. I. González Flórez et al., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 55, 3295–3299 (2016); Charge-Induced Unzipping of Isolated Proteins to a Defined Secondary Structure

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    German version: Angew. Chem. 128, 3356–3360 (2016); Ladungsinduziertes Entwinden isolierter Proteine zu einer definierten Sekundärstruktur

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    Group of Gert von Helden (FHI) in collaboration with Kevin Pagel (FU Berlin & FHI).
56. 2016: N. X. Truong et al., Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 395, 1–6 (2016); Characterization of neutral boron-silicon clusters using infrared spectroscopy: The case of Si₆B
    
    Group of André Fielicke (TU Berlin & FHI) in collaboration with the group of Otto Dopfer (TU Berlin).
57. 2015: A. Paarmann et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 107, 081101 (2015); Second harmonic generation spectroscopy in the Reststrahl band of SiC using an infrared free-electron laser
    
    Group of Alexander Paarmann (FHI).
58. 2015: A. I. González Flórez et al., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 17, 21902 (2015); IR spectroscopy of protonated leu-enkephalin and its 18-crown-6 complex embedded in helium droplets
    
    Group of Gert von Helden (FHI).
59. 2015: S. Warnke et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 4236−4242 (2015); Protomers of Benzocaine: Solvent and Permittivity Dependence
    
    Group of Gert von Helden (FHI) in collaboration with groups from Antwerp (Belgium), Warwick (UK), Santa Barbara (USA), and FU Berlin (Germany).
60. 2014: J. A. Fournier et al., PNAS 111 (51), 18132−18137 (2014); Magic H₃O⁺(H₂O)₂₀ and Cs⁺(H₂O)₂₀ clusters
    
    Group of Knut Asmis (FHI & Leipzig University) in collaboration with the group of Mark Johnson (Yale University, USA).
61. 2014: G. B. S. Miller et al., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 126 (52), 14635–14638 (2014); Structure of the anionic ClMgCO₂^- complex
    
    Group of Knut Asmis (FHI & Leipzig University) in collaboration with the group of Einar Uggerud (University of Oslo, Norway).