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 …

Proton imaging of high-energy-density laboratory plasmas

DB Schaeffer, AFA Bott, M Borghesi, KA Flippo… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
Proton imaging has become a key diagnostic for measuring electromagnetic fields in high-
energy-density (HED) laboratory plasmas. Compared to other techniques for diagnosing …

Terahertz streaking of few-femtosecond relativistic electron beams

L Zhao, Z Wang, C Lu, R Wang, C Hu, P Wang, J Qi… - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
Streaking of photoelectrons with optical lasers has been widely used for temporal
characterization of attosecond extreme ultraviolet pulses. Recently, this technique has been …

Monitoring the evolution of relative product populations at early times during a photochemical reaction

JP Figueira Nunes, LM Ibele, S Pathak… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Identifying multiple rival reaction products and transient species formed during ultrafast
photochemical reactions and determining their time-evolving relative populations are key …

[HTML][HTML] Direct imaging of plasma waves using ultrafast electron microscopy

S Sun, X Sun, D Bartles, E Wozniak, J Williams… - Structural …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
A femtosecond plasma imaging modality based on a new development of ultrafast electron
microscope is introduced. We investigated the laser-induced formation of high-temperature …

Femtosecond probing of plasma wakefields and observation of the plasma wake reversal using a relativistic electron bunch

CJ Zhang, JF Hua, Y Wan, CH Pai, B Guo, J Zhang… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
We show that a high-energy electron bunch can be used to capture the instantaneous
longitudinal and transverse field structures of the highly transient, microscopic, laser-excited …

Imaging of alignment and structural changes of carbon disulfide molecules using ultrafast electron diffraction

J Yang, J Beck, CJ Uiterwaal, M Centurion - Nature communications, 2015 - nature.com
Imaging the structure of molecules in transient-excited states remains a challenge due to the
extreme requirements for spatial and temporal resolution. Ultrafast electron diffraction from …

Femtosecond photoelectron point projection microscope

E Quinonez, J Handali, B Barwick - Review of Scientific Instruments, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
By utilizing a nanometer ultrafast electron source in a point projection microscope we
demonstrate that images of nanoparticles with spatial resolutions of the order of 100 …

Charge dynamics electron microscopy: Nanoscale imaging of femtosecond plasma dynamics

I Madan, EJC Dias, S Gargiulo, F Barantani, M Yannai… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Understanding and actively controlling the spatiotemporal dynamics of nonequilibrium
electron clouds is fundamental for the design of light and electron sources, high-power …

Transient lensing from a photoemitted electron gas imaged by ultrafast electron microscopy

O Zandi, AE Sykes, RD Cornelius, FM Alcorn… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Understanding and controlling ultrafast charge carrier dynamics is of fundamental
importance in diverse fields of (quantum) science and technology. Here, we create a three …