Department of Physics and Astronomy: Publications and Other Research
Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
2-22-2016
Citation
Published in Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 49 (2016), 062002 (15pp). doi 10.1088/0953-4075/49/6/062002
Abstract
Recent advances in ultrafast electron diffraction offer the possibility to image isolated molecules with sub-Angstrom spatial resolution in ultrafast time scales. In particular, diffraction from aligned molecules has opened the door to retrieving three-dimensional structures directly from experimental data. In this manuscript we review the progress in ultrafast gas electron diffraction and discuss remaining challenges to achieve a temporal resolution of sub-100 fs, which is needed to observe the nuclear motion in chemical reactions in the gas phase.
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