Sentences with phrase «brief electron pulses»

The extremely brief electron pulses ensure that the image remains sharp, much like a short - exposure photograph of a speeding object.

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Physics and chemistry professor Ahmed Zewail and his colleagues at the California Institute of Technology married two previously independent lines of research: femtochemistry, in which pairs of brief laser pulses initiate and monitor a chemical reaction, and electron diffraction, in which a molecule's structure is determined from the scatter of electrons fired at a crystal containing billions of copies of that molecule.

In a series of experiments, the team fired an unspeakably brief, extremely ultraviolet laser pulse at a helium atom to start exciting its pair of electrons.

Applying a brief voltage pulse to a control electrode allows the superconducting electron pairs to oscillate back and forth between the two locations, representing the one and zero of a digital system.