Publications by Marcel Drabbels

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High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy with Bright Microsecond Electron Pulses

Marcel Drabbels, Ulrich Lorenz, Pavel Olshin, Gabriele Bongiovanni

Transmission electron microscopy at atomic-resolution is a crucial tool in a variety of fields, ranging from materials science to biology. [1,2] Fast electron cameras have recently enabled high-speed observations atomic resolution. [3] Moreover, they have ...

2021

Microsecond melting and revitrification of cryo samples

Marcel Drabbels, Ulrich Lorenz, Pavel Olshin, Jonathan Mark Voss, Oliver Florian Harder

The dynamics of proteins that are associated with their function typically occur on the microsecond timescale, orders of magnitude faster than the time resolution of cryo-electron microscopy. We have recently introduced a novel approach to time-resolved cr ...

AIP Publishing2021

Characterization of a time-resolved electron microscope with a Schottky field emission gun

Marcel Drabbels, Ulrich Lorenz, Pavel Olshin

The rapid growth of the field of time-resolved and ultrafast electron microscopy has been accompanied by the active development of new instrumentation. Recently, time-resolved microscopes equipped with a field emission gun have been introduced, demonstrati ...

2020

Helium-induced electronic transitions in photo-excited Ba+–Hen exciplexes

Marcel Drabbels

The possibility for helium-induced electronic transitions in a photo-excited atom is investigated using Ba+ excited to the 6p 2P state as a prototypical example. A diabatization scheme has been designed to obtain the necessary potential energy surfaces and ...

2018

Critical Landau velocity in helium nanodroplets

Alberto Hernando de Castro, Marcel Drabbels, Evgeniy Loginov, Nils Benedict Brauer

The best-known property of superfluid helium is the vanishing viscosity that objects experience while moving through the liquid with speeds below the so-called critical Landau velocity. This critical velocity is generally considered a macroscopic property ...

American Physical Society2013

Conformational flexibility of a rotaxane thread probed by electronic spectroscopy in helium nanodroplets

Marcel Drabbels

Ultra-high-resolution spectroscopic studies have been performed to elucidate the conformational landscape of the succinamide-based thread 1 that is frequently employed in mechanically interlocked molecular assemblies. We show how dissolving single molecule ...

American Chemical Society2009

Atomic-Resolution Imaging of Fast Nanoscale Dynamics with Bright Microsecond Electron Pulses

Marcel Drabbels, Ulrich Lorenz, Pavel Olshin, Gabriele Bongiovanni

Atomic-resolution electron microscopy is a crucial tool to elucidate the structure of matter. Recently, fast electron cameras have added the time domain to high-resolution imaging, allowing static images to be acquired as movies from which sample drift can ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2020

In Situ Observation of Coulomb Fission of Individual Plasmonic Nanoparticles

Romain Loïc Charbonnier, Marcel Drabbels, Ulrich Lorenz, Pavel Olshin, Jonathan Mark Voss

Reshaping plasmonic nanoparticles with laser pulses has been extensively researched as a tool for tuning their properties. However, in the absence of direct observations of the processes involved, important mechanistic details have remained elusive. Here, ...

2019

Elementary Excitations of Superfluid Helium Droplets Probed by Ion Spectroscopy

Marcel Drabbels, Xiaohang Zhang

Electronic spectra of molecules in helium droplets reveal spectral features that are related to the elementary excitations of the superfluid helium environment. In order to determine to what extend the interaction strength of the molecule with the helium a ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Excitation of Sodium Atoms Attached to Helium Nanodroplets: The 3p

Alberto Hernando de Castro, Marcel Drabbels, Evgeniy Loginov

The dynamics of Na atoms on the surface of helium nanodroplets following excitation via the 3p

American Chemical Society2015

Ultrafast Resonant Interatomic Coulombic Decay Induced by Quantum Fluid Dynamics

Marcel Drabbels, Andrew Daniel Bonnar Clark, Verónica Oliver Álvarez de Lara

Interatomic processes play a crucial role in weakly bound complexes exposed to ionizing radiation; therefore, gaining a thorough understanding of their efficiency is of fundamental importance. Here, we directly measure the timescale of interatomic Coulombi ...

American Physical Society2021

Tracking attosecond electronic coherences using phase-manipulated extreme ultraviolet pulses

Marcel Drabbels, Primoz Rebernik Ribic

The recent development of ultrafast extreme ultraviolet (XUV) coherent light sources bears great potential for a better understanding of the structure and dynamics of matter. Promising routes are advanced coherent control and nonlinear spectroscopy schemes ...

Nature Research2020

Ultrafast relaxation of photoexcited superfluid He nanodroplets

Alberto Hernando de Castro, Marcel Drabbels

The relaxation of photoexcited nanosystems is a fundamental process of light–matter interaction. Depending on the couplings of the internal degrees of freedom, relaxation can be ultrafast, converting electronic energy in a few fs, or slow, if the energy is ...

Nature Research2020

Evolution and ion kinetics of a XUV-induced nanoplasma in ammonia clusters

Marcel Drabbels, Andrew Daniel Bonnar Clark, Verónica Oliver Álvarez de Lara

High-intensity extreme ultraviolet (XUV) pulses from a free-electron laser can be used to create a nanoplasma in clusters. In reference Michiels et al (2020 Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 22 7828-34) we investigated the formation of excited states in an XUV-induc ...

IOP Publishing2021

Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Barium-doped Helium Nanodroplets

Marcel Drabbels, Evgeniy Loginov

Excitation spectra up to the ionization threshold are reported for barium atoms located on the surface of helium nanodroplets. For states with low principal quantum number, the resonances are substantially broadened and shifted towards higher energy with r ...

American Institute of Physics2012

The fragmentation mechanism of gold nanoparticles in water under femtosecond laser irradiation

Marcel Drabbels, Ulrich Lorenz, Pavel Olshin, Gabriele Bongiovanni, Jonathan Mark Voss, Chengcheng Yan

Plasmonic nanoparticles in aqueous solution have long been known to fragment under irradiation with intense ultrafast laser pulses, creating progeny particles with diameters of a few nanometers. However, the mechanism of this process is still intensely deb ...

2021

Dynamics of Excited Sodium Atoms Attached to Helium Nanodroplets

Marcel Drabbels, Evgeniy Loginov

The dynamics of laser-excited sodium atoms at the surface of helium nanodroplets has been investigated as a function of quantum state. For all cases excitation of the system leads to desorption of the sodium atom from the droplet surface. The mean kinetic ...

American Chemical Society2014

Electron diffraction of deeply supercooled water in no man’s land

Marcel Drabbels, Ulrich Lorenz, Gabriele Bongiovanni, Constantin Richard Krüger, Nathan Junior Mowry

A generally accepted understanding of the anomalous properties of water will only emerge if it becomes possible to systematically characterize water in the deeply supercooled regime, from where the anomalies appear to emanate. This has largely remained elu ...

Nature Research2023

Spectroscopy on Rydberg states of sodium atoms on the surface of helium nanodroplets

Marcel Drabbels, Evgeniy Loginov

One- and two-photon excitation spectra of sodium atoms on the surface of helium droplets are reported. The spectra are recorded by monitoring the photoionization yield of desorbed atoms as function of excitation frequency. The excitation spectra involving ...

American Chemical Society2011

Dynamics of photoexcited Ba+ cations in 4He nanodroplets

Alberto Hernando de Castro, Marcel Drabbels, Xiaohang Zhang

We present a joint experimental and theoretical study on the desolvation of Ba+ cations in 4He nanodroplets excited via the 6p 6s transition. The experiments reveal an efficient desolvation process yielding mainly bare Ba+ cations and Ba+Hen exciplexes wit ...

American Institute of Physics2016