Velocity Map Imaging (VMI)

SIMION has been used for simulations relating to velocity map imaging. For background see Wikipedia:Photofragment-ion_imaging. Below are some links relating to this work.

Links

• Velocity Map Imaging Apparatus for Studies on the Photochemistry of Water Ice. Pubudu Piyumie Wickramasinghe. Queen’s University. Thesis. 2011. link - SIMION 7.0 simulations.
• Design and implementation of an apparatus for sliced velocity map imaging of H atoms. Mikhail Ryazanov. 2012. link - SIMION 8.0 simulations. Also: doi:10.1063/1.4798929 “Improved sliced velocity map imaging apparatus optimized for H photofragments” (2013 article)
• Quintero-PerezJansen2012. Quintero Perez, Marina. Jansen, Paul. Bethlem, Hendrick L. Velocity map imaging of a slow beam of ammonia molecules inside a quadrupole guide. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. volume 14, issue 27, year 2012, page 9630 doi:10.1039/c2cp40822h – SIMION simulations.
• MitsukeKatayanagi2012. Mitsuke, Koichiro. Katayanagi, Hideki. Kafle, Bhim P. Prodhan, Md. Serajul I. Design of Velocity Map Imaging Spectrometer Equipped with a Mass Gate Discriminating Particular Photofragments|journal=ISRN Physical Chemistry. volume 2012, year 2012, pages 1-9. doi:10.5402/2012/959074 – used SIMION 7.0
• MarchettiKarsili2015. Marchetti, Barbara. Karsili, Tolga N. V. Kelly, Orla. Kapetanopoulos, Panos. Ashfold, Michael N. R. Near ultraviolet photochemistry of 2-bromo- and 2-iodothiophene: Revealing photoinduced ring opening in the gas phase? The Journal of Chemical Physics. volume 142, issue 22, year 2015, pages 224303 doi:10.1063/1.4921315 – used SIMION
• Designing a VMI Spectrometer Lens for Mid Infrared Strong-Field and Attosecond XUV Photoionization Experiments. Cameron Nelson and Anthony DiChiara. U.Grad Thesis. Ohio State University Engineering. 2011? link - used SIMION 7.0
• Velocitas VMI Brochure. link - SIMION used for VMI simulations.
• Electron Velocity Map Imaging link – used SIMION 8.0.
• Velocity-map and spatial-map imaging using new designs of high-resolution ion optics. The Bristol & Oxford Chemical Dynamics Group. link - used SIMION
• Sara Thorin. Design and construction of a velocity map imaging spectrometer. Master thesis. Lund Reports on Atomic Physics, LRAP-327, Lunc, Aug 2004. link
• N G Kling. D Paul. A Gura. G Laurent. S De. H Li. Z Wang. B Ahn. C H Kim. T K Kim. I V Litvinyuk. C L Cocke. I Ben-Itzhak. D Kim. M F Kling. Thick-lens velocity-map imaging spectrometer with high resolution for high-energy charged particles. Journal of Instrumentation, volume 9, number 05, pages P05005, year 2014. link - with SIMION simulations and comparison between VMI and COLTRIMS
• Heriot Watt University. VMI. link - short description with SIMON image.
• Wikipedia:Photofragment-ion_imaging

COLTRIMS

• Swasti Arya. Designing of a reaction microscope to study dynamics of atoms and Molecules. Master Dissertation. Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, 2013. link - with in depth description of SIMION
• COLTRIMS training program. amo-csd.lbl.gov link
• Berkley lab. Ultrafast X-Ray Science Laboratory - Facilities. Momentum Imaging for TimE Resolved Studies - MISTERS A COLTRIMS Apparatus for Time Resolved Studies. link
• CPOTS 2011 course outline link
• Zehra Erengil. Designing and simulating COLTRIMS spectrometer. Afyon Kocatepe University, Institute of Natural and Applied Science. link
• Helmholtz Coil