Ultrafast electron diffraction: Visualizing dynamic states of matter

D Filippetto, P Musumeci, RK Li, BJ Siwick… - Reviews of Modern …, 2022 - APS
Since the discovery of electron-wave duality, electron scattering instrumentation has
developed into a powerful array of techniques for revealing the atomic structure of matter …

Brighter, faster, stronger: ultrafast scattering of free molecules

A Odate, A Kirrander, PM Weber… - Advances in Physics …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Advances in FEL technologies have contributed remarkably to various scientific fields over
the past decade, and ultrafast molecular dynamics is no exception. The ability to probe …

Ultrafast atomic view of laser-induced melting and breathing motion of metallic liquid clusters with MeV ultrafast electron diffraction

J Wu, M Tang, L Zhao, P Zhu, T Jiang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Under the irradiation of an ultrafast intense laser, solid materials can be driven into
nonequilibrium states undergoing an ultrafast solid–liquid phase transition. Understanding …

Ultrafast imaging of molecular dynamics using ultrafast low-frequency lasers, X-ray free electron lasers, and electron pulses

M Zhang, Z Guo, X Mi, Z Li, Y Liu - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The requirement of high space-time resolution and brightness is a great challenge for
imaging atomic motion and making molecular movies. Important breakthroughs in ultrabright …

[HTML][HTML] THz-enhanced DC ultrafast electron diffractometer

D Zhang, T Kroh, F Ritzkowsky, T Rohwer… - Ultrafast …, 2021 - spj.science.org
Abstract Terahertz-(THz-) based electron manipulation has recently been shown to hold
tremendous promise as a technology for manipulating and driving the next generation of …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrafast electron diffraction from transiently aligned asymmetric top molecules: Rotational dynamics and structure retrieval

KJ Wilkin, Y Xiong, H Zhao, SB Muvva, SK Saha… - Structural …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) from aligned molecules in the gas phase has successfully
retrieved structures of both linear and symmetric top molecules. Alignment of asymmetric …

Quantum state tomography of molecules by ultrafast diffraction

M Zhang, S Zhang, Y Xiong, H Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Ultrafast electron diffraction and time-resolved serial crystallography are the basis of the
ongoing revolution in capturing at the atomic level of detail the structural dynamics of …

Retrieval of the molecular orientation distribution from atom-pair angular distributions

Y Xiong, KJ Wilkin, SK Saha, SB Muvva, H Zhao… - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
Imaging laser-induced rotational dynamics is an important and active field due to its
applications in capturing reactions in the molecular frame and in molecular imaging …

Ultrafast imaging of molecules with electron diffraction

M Centurion, TJA Wolf, J Yang - Annual Review of Physical …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Photoexcited molecules convert light into chemical and mechanical energy through changes
in electronic and nuclear structure that take place on femtosecond timescales. Gas phase …

Strong-field induced fragmentation and isomerization of toluene probed by ultrafast femtosecond electron diffraction and mass spectrometry

Y Xiong, K Borne, AM Carrascosa, SK Saha… - Faraday …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
We investigate the fragmentation and isomerization of toluene molecules induced by strong-
field ionization with a femtosecond near-infrared laser pulse. Momentum-resolved …