Atomic and molecular clusters are being recognized as playing an important role in the thin-film deposition process and phase-change phenomena. Furthermore, small clusters are the most adequate system for the verification of quantum molecular dynamics calculations such as the interference of light and matter. Hence, experimental treatments of such atomic and molecular clusters are now desired. ...

Our research on time-of-flight mass spectrometry (TOFMS) coupled with controlled molecular fragmentation and ionization using shaped femtosecond pulses as a means for molecular identification has led us to uncover general trends that describe how molecules behave under intense laser radiation.1 One of the reviewers of that work suggested that we include in the study a molecule with a known beha...