Not exact matches
Physicists from Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have developed an attosecond
electron microscope that allows them to visualize the dispersion of light in time and space, and
observe the
motions of
electrons in atoms.
To
observe ultrafast
electron motions in space and time, one needs to measure the position of
electrons in the material with a precision of the order of 0.1 nm (0.1 nm = 10 - 10 m), roughly corresponding to the distance between neighboring atoms, and on a sub-100 fs time scale (1 fs = 10 - 15s).
The door for
observing the ultrafast
motion of
electrons deep inside atoms has been opened.
In order to
observe the ultrafast
electron motion in the inner shells of atoms with short light pulses, the pulses must not only be ultrashort, but very bright, and the photons delivered must have sufficiently high energy.
The cooling slowed the natural
motion of the atoms to a near stop, which allowed the researchers to
observe the
electron spins» dance around the Ytterbium (Yb) atoms in the YbMgGaO4 crystal.