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 …

Accelerating quantum materials development with advances in transmission electron microscopy

P Moradifar, Y Liu, J Shi, ML Siukola Thurston… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Quantum materials are driving a technology revolution in sensing, communication, and
computing, while simultaneously testing many core theories of the past century. Materials …

Four-dimensional emittance measurements of ultrafast electron diffraction optics corrected up to sextupole order

M Gordon, WH Li, MB Andorf, AC Bartnik… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2022 - APS
Ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) is a technique in which short-pulse electron beams can
probe the femtosecond-scale evolution of atomic structure in matter driven far from …

[HTML][HTML] Atomically smooth films of CsSb: A chemically robust visible light photocathode

CT Parzyck, CA Pennington, WJI DeBenedetti… - APL Materials, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Alkali antimonide semiconductor photocathodes provide a promising platform for the
generation of high-brightness electron beams, which are necessary for the development of …

Harnessing Plasmonic Interference for Nanoscale Ultrafast Electron Sources

A Kachwala, MM Rizi, CM Pierce, D Filippetto… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
In this Letter we demonstrate the use of plasmonic focusing in conjunction with nonlinear
photoemission to develop geometrically flat nanoscale electron sources with less than 40 …

Accurate quantification of lattice temperature dynamics from ultrafast electron diffraction of single-crystal films using dynamical scattering simulations

DB Durham, C Ophus, KM Siddiqui, AM Minor… - Structural …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
In ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) experiments, accurate retrieval of time-resolved
structural parameters, such as atomic coordinates and thermal displacement parameters …

A cryogenically cooled 200 kV DC photoemission electron gun for ultralow emittance photocathodes

G Gevorkyan, C Sarabia-Cardenas… - Review of Scientific …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Novel photocathode materials like ordered surfaces of single crystal metals, epitaxially
grown high quantum efficiency thin films, and topologically non-trivial materials with dirac …

Towards Construction of a Novel Nanometer-Resolution MeV-STEM for Imaging Thick Frozen Biological Samples

X Yang, L Wang, J Maxson, AC Bartnik, M Kaemingk… - Photonics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Driven by life-science applications, a mega-electron-volt Scanning Transmission Electron
Microscope (MeV-STEM) has been proposed here to image thick frozen biological samples …

[HTML][HTML] A structural analysis of ordered Cs3Sb films grown on single crystal graphene and silicon carbide substrates

CA Pennington, M Gaowei, EM Echeverria… - APL Materials, 2025 - pubs.aip.org
Alkali antimonides are well established as high efficiency, low intrinsic emittance
photocathodes for accelerators and photon detectors. However, conventionally grown alkali …

[HTML][HTML] High energy electron diffraction instrument with tunable camera length

P Denham, Y Yang, V Guo, A Fisher, X Shen, T Xu… - Structural …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) stands as a powerful technique for real-time observation
of structural dynamics at the atomic level. In recent years, the use of MeV electrons from …