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This part of the World Wide Web is dedicated to ZEKE Spectroscopy and related fields. We hope it will serve as a platform for lively discussion and a valuable source of information for all people interested in theoretical and experimental aspects of ZEKE Spectroscopy.

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Charge transport in proteins, ZEKE Spectroscopy

Introduction & Educational

ZEKE spectroscopy is a new very high resolution spectroscopy for the study of cations, anions and, indirectly through these species, of neutrals, including very short lived intermediates in chemical reactions and as such has even yielded the first direct spectroscopic data on elusive transition states of chemical reactions (Neumark). The initial experiments were carried out in 1984 (Chem. Phys. Lett. 112, 291-294 (1984) K. Müller-Dethlefs, M. Sander and E.W. Schlag). It provides measurement to a very high degree of accuracy and at a resolution three orders of magnitude better than previous techniques. This new spectroscopy has yielded highly accurate spectroscopic results, ionization potentials, bond energies, etc. for molecular ions using a reasonably straightforward experimental setup. A general list of molecules studied is appended.

What is ZEKE Spectroscopy?
How does ZEKE spectroscopy work ?
Field Locking ZEKE states

List of Published Articles

A list of ZEKE papers world wide
Now maintained by H.L. Selzle in Garching (TU Munich)

Preprints & submitted

Noteworthy books

Noteworthy Review Articles

ZEKE Spectroscopy
Andrew Held and Edward W. Schlag
Accts. Chem. Res. 31, 467-473 (1998)
High-Resolution Zero Kinetic Energy (ZEKE) Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Molecular Systems
K. Müller-Dethlefs and E.W. Schlag
Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem. 42, 109-136 (1991)
ZEKE SPECTROSCOPY: HIGH-RESOLUTION SECTROSCOPY WITH PHOTOELECTRONS
K. Müller-Dethlefs, E.W. Schlag, E.R. Grant, K. Wang, and B.V. McKoy
Adv. in Chemical Physics XC, 1-104 (1995)
ZEKE Spectroscopy: High Resolution Laser Spectroscopy in a Modified Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer
Chahan Yeretzian, Heinrich L. Selzle, and E. W. Schlag
Eur. Mass Spectrom. 2, 3-13 (1996)
ZEKE Spectroscopy of Ions, Radicals, Reactive Intermediates and Clusters and the Dynamics of High Molecular Rydberg States
E.W. Schlag and R.D. Levine
Comments At. Mol. Phys. 33, 159-180 (1997)