Not exact matches
These feature make ultrashort
electron pulse trains an ideal tool with which to monitor, in real time, the
ultrafast processes initiated by the impact of light oscillations onto matter.
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.
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.
These opportunities include the use of short -
pulsed X-ray sources for extracting time - dependent structural information from proteins; and the revolutionary new possibilities created by X-ray Free
Electron Lasers, which combine
ultrafast X-ray
pulses with high brilliance focussing capabilities to create an entirely new regime of pre-damage time - resolved serial femtosecond crystallography on unprecedented time - scales.