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In order to study stereodynamic effects in nonreactive scattering using molecular beams, it is important to be able to orient the (molecular) collision partner. All common methods of orientation for the gas phase make use of a uniform electric field. The conventional method, which is restricted to polar symmetric top molecules or molecules behaving as such, is to select the molecules in a definite rotational state and subsequently orient them in a preferential direction by a uniform electric field of moderate strength. The second method, brute force orientation [2], introduced in 1990, is based on applying a strong uniform electric field, so that orientation by Stark mixing of different rotational states occurs. A comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of the two methods is given in Ref. [3]. More recently a beam of oriented metastable CO molecules was produced by populating a single M-sublevel in the presence of an electric field using a narrow bandwidth laser [4].
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de Lange, M.J.L. et al. (2001). Orientation of Parity-Selected NO and Its Steric Asymmetry in Rotational Energy Transfer Collisions . In: Campargue, R. (eds) Atomic and Molecular Beams. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56800-8_35
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