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 …

Attomicroscopy: from femtosecond to attosecond electron microscopy

MT Hassan - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
In the last decade, the development of ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) and microscopy
(UEM) have enabled the imaging of atomic motion in real time and space. These pivotal …

[HTML][HTML] Femtosecond gas-phase mega-electron-volt ultrafast electron diffraction

X Shen, JPF Nunes, J Yang, RK Jobe, RK Li… - Structural …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The development of ultrafast gas electron diffraction with nonrelativistic electrons has
enabled the determination of molecular structures with atomic spatial resolution. It has …

Terahertz oscilloscope for recording time information of ultrashort electron beams

L Zhao, Z Wang, H Tang, R Wang, Y Cheng, C Lu… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
We propose and demonstrate a terahertz (THz) oscilloscope for recording time information
of an ultrashort electron beam. By injecting a laser-driven THz pulse with circular …

[HTML][HTML] Solving the jitter problem in microwave compressed ultrafast electron diffraction instruments: Robust sub-50 fs cavity-laser phase stabilization

MR Otto, LP René de Cotret, MJ Stern, BJ Siwick - Structural Dynamics, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate the compression of electron pulses in a high-brightness ultrafast electron
diffraction instrument using phase-locked microwave signals directly generated from a mode …

High-resolution movies of molecular rotational dynamics captured with ultrafast electron diffraction

Y Xiong, KJ Wilkin, M Centurion - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
Imaging the structure of molecules during a photoinduced reaction is essential for
elucidating reaction mechanisms. This requires high spatiotemporal resolution to capture …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrafast x-ray and electron scattering of free molecules: A comparative evaluation

L Ma, H Yong, JD Geiser, A Moreno Carrascosa… - Structural …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Resolving gas phase molecular motions with simultaneous spatial and temporal resolution
is rapidly coming within the reach of x-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFELs) and Mega-electron …

Femtosecond mega-electron-volt electron microdiffraction

X Shen, RK Li, U Lundström, TJ Lane, AH Reid… - Ultramicroscopy, 2018 - Elsevier
To understand and control the basic functions of physical, chemical and biological
processes from micron to nano-meter scale, an instrument capable of visualizing transient …

[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 …