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Ultrafast laser technique developed to observe electron action.»
Not exact matches
As described in a paper just published in the Nature partner journal npj Quantum Materials, the team developed an «
ultrafast electron diffraction» system — a new
laser - driven imaging
technique and the first of its kind in the world — to capture the subtle atomic - scale lattice distortions.
Using the Washington University
technique, called compressed
ultrafast photography (CUP), Wang and his colleagues have made movies of the images they took with single
laser shots of four physical phenomena:
laser pulse reflection, refraction, faster - than light propagation of what is called non-information, and photon racing in two media.
Using
ultrafast laser pulses that speed up the data recording process, Caltech researchers adopted a novel
technique,
ultrafast electron crystallography (UEC), to visualize directly in four dimensions the changing atomic configurations of the materials undergoing the phase changes.
Free - electron
lasers have opened new frontiers in studying materials and chemistry at the nanoscale and beyond, and Filippetto said he hopes to pave new ground with HiRES, too, using a
technique known as «
ultrafast electron diffraction,» or UED, that is similar to X-ray diffraction.