Part I Experimental Methods
Takayuki Ebata, Yoshiya Inokuchi and Atsushi Nakajima
1 Experimental Methods: Generation of cold gas-phase molecules, molecular ions, their clusters, metal clusters, and laser spectroscopy
Part II Spectroscopy and Characterization of Gas-phase Functional Molecules and Clusters
2 Microscopic Study on Molecular Recognition of Host-guest Complexes between Crown Ethers and Aromatic Molecules
Takayuki Ebata
3 Chirality Effects in Jet-cooled Cyclic Dipeptides
Ariel Pérez-Mellor and Anne Zehnacker
4 Hydrogen Bond Networks Formed by Several Dozens to Hundreds of Molecules in the Gas-Phase
Asuka Fujii
5 Gas-Phase Spectroscopy of Metal Ion–Benzo-Crown Ether Complexes
Yoshiya Inokuchi
Part III Spectroscopy and Characterization of Metal Clusters
6 Metal Cation Coordination and Solvation Studied with Infrared Spectroscopy in the Gas Phase
Michael Duncan
7 Superatomic Nanoclusters Comprising Silicon or Aluminum Cages
Atsushi Nakajima
8 Characterization of Chemically Modified Gold/Silver Superatoms in the Gas Phase
Kiichiro Koyasu, Keisuke Hirata and Tatsuya Tsukuda
Part IV Dynamics of vibrationally and Electronically Excited State Molecules, Ions, and Clusters
9 Time-resolved Study on Vibrational Energy Relaxation of Aromatic Molecules and Their Clusters in the Gas Phase
Takayuki Ebata
10 Non-adiabatic Dynamics of Molecules Studied Using Vacuum-ultraviolet Ultrafast Photoelectron Spectroscopy
Shunsuke Adachi and Toshinori Suzuki
11 Femtosecond Time-resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Molecular Anions
Alice Kunin and Daniel Neumark
12 Excited States Processes in Protonated Molecules Studied by Frequency-domain Spectroscopy
Jennifer Noble, Claude Dedonder, Christophe Jouvet
13 Time-resolved Study on Photo-initiated Isomerization of Clusters
Masaaki Fujii and Otto Dopfer