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 …

Advances in ultrafast plasmonics

AN Koya, M Romanelli, J Kuttruff… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In the past 20 years, we have reached a broad understanding of many light-driven
phenomena in nanoscale systems. The temporal dynamics of the excited states are instead …

Time-resolved transmission electron microscopy for nanoscale chemical dynamics

FM Alcorn, PK Jain, RM van der Veen - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
The ability of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to image a structure ranging from
millimetres to Ångströms has made it an indispensable component of the toolkit of modern …

Megaelectronvolt electron acceleration driven by terahertz surface waves

XQ Yu, YS Zeng, LW Song, DY Kong, SB Hao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Particles at relativistic energies form the basis of acceleration science. The emergence of
terahertz-driven acceleration promises vastly smaller and cost-efficient accelerators; …

Stable and scalable multistage terahertz-driven particle accelerator

H Tang, L Zhao, P Zhu, X Zou, J Qi, Y Cheng, J Qiu… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Particle accelerators that use electromagnetic fields to increase a charged particle's energy
have greatly advanced the development of science and industry since invention. However …

Acceleration of relativistic beams using laser-generated terahertz pulses

MT Hibberd, AL Healy, DS Lake, V Georgiadis… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Particle accelerators driven by laser-generated terahertz (THz) pulses promise
unprecedented control over the energy–time phase space of particle bunches compared …

Breaking 50 femtosecond resolution barrier in MeV ultrafast electron diffraction with a double bend achromat compressor

F Qi, Z Ma, L Zhao, Y Cheng, W Jiang, C Lu, T Jiang… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
We propose and demonstrate a novel scheme to produce ultrashort and ultrastable MeV
electron beam. In this scheme, the electron beam produced in a photocathode radio …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental demonstration of externally driven millimeter-wave particle accelerator structure

MAK Othman, J Picard, S Schaub… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We report the experimental demonstration of a mm-wave electron accelerating structure
powered by a high-power rf source. We demonstrate reliable coupling of an unprecedented …

Cascaded high-gradient terahertz-driven acceleration of relativistic electron beams

H Xu, L Yan, Y Du, W Huang, Q Tian, R Li, Y Liang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Terahertz-driven acceleration has recently emerged as a route for delivering ultrashort bright
electron beams efficiently, reliably and in a compact set-up. Many working schemes and key …

Terahertz control and timing correlations in a transmission electron microscope

J Kuttruff, D Nabben, AC Zimmermann, A Ryabov… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Ultrafast electron microscopy provides a movie-like access to structural dynamics of
materials in space and time, but fundamental atomic motions or electron dynamics are, so …