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 …

Femtosecond electron diffraction: heralding the era of atomically resolved dynamics

G Sciaini, RJD Miller - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
One of the great dream experiments in Science is to directly observe atomic motions as they
occur. Femtosecond electron diffraction provided the first'light'of sufficient intensity to …

Femtosecond crystallography with ultrabright electrons and x-rays: Capturing chemistry in action

RJD Miller - Science, 2014 - science.org
With the recent advances in ultrabright electron and x-ray sources, it is now possible to
extend crystallography to the femtosecond time domain to literally light up atomic motions …

4D ultrafast electron diffraction, crystallography, and microscopy

AH Zewail - Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem., 2006 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract In this review, we highlight the progress made in the development of 4D ultrafast
electron diffraction (UED), crystallography (UEC), and microscopy (UEM) with a focus on …

Ultrafast electron microscopy in materials science, biology, and chemistry

WE King, GH Campbell, A Frank, B Reed… - Journal of Applied …, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
The use of pump-probe experiments to study complex transient events has been an area of
significant interest in materials science, biology, and chemistry. While the emphasis has …

Capturing chemistry in action with electrons: realization of atomically resolved reaction dynamics

AA Ischenko, PM Weber, RJD Miller - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
One of the grand challenges in chemistry has been to directly observe atomic motions
during chemical processes. The depiction of the nuclear configurations in space-time to …

Clocking transient chemical changes by ultrafast electron diffraction

JC Williamson, J Cao, H Ihee, H Frey, AH Zewail - Nature, 1997 - nature.com
With the advent of femtosecond (fs) time resolution in spectroscopic experiments, it is now
possible to study the evolution of nuclear motions in chemical and photobiochemical …

Ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) a new development for the 4D determination of transient molecular structures

R Srinivasan, VA Lobastov, CY Ruan… - Helvetica chimica …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
With properly timed sequences of ultrafast electron pulses, it is now possible to image
complex molecular structures in the four dimensions of space and time with resolutions of …

Ultrafast time-resolved electron diffraction with megavolt electron beams

JB Hastings, FM Rudakov, DH Dowell… - Applied physics …, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
A rf photocathode electron gun is used as an electron source for ultrafast time-resolved
pump-probe electron diffraction. The authors observed single-shot diffraction patterns from a …

Femtosecond electron diffraction:'making the molecular movie'

JR Dwyer, CT Hebeisen… - … of the Royal …, 2006 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Femtosecond electron diffraction (FED) has the potential to directly observe transition state
processes. The relevant motions for this barrier-crossing event occur on the hundred …