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The quantum wave nature of matter is a cornerstone of modern physics, whichhas been demonstrated for a wide range of fundamental and composite particles.While diffraction at nanomechanical masks is usually regarded to be independentof atomic or molecular internal states, the particles' polarisabilities anddipole moments lead to dispersive interactions with the grating surface. Inprior experiments, such forces largely prevented matter-wave experiments withpolar molecules, as they led to dephasing of the matter wave in the presence ofrandomly distributed charges incorporated into the grating. Here we show thation-beam milling using neon facilitates the fabrication of lowly-chargednanomasks in gold-capped silicon nitride membranes. This allows us to observethe diffraction of polar molecules with a four times larger electric dipolemoment than in previous experiments. This new capability opens a path to theassessment of the structure of polar molecules in matter-wave diffractionexperiments.

Impact of molecular properties on diffraction at nanomasks with low charge density