Lasting just a few hundred billionths of a billionth of a second, these bursts offer new tool to study chemistry and magnetism.
First demonstration of high-pressure metastability mapping with ultrafast X-ray diffraction shows objects aren’t as large as previously thought.
Tracking atoms is crucial to improving the efficiency of next-generation perovskite solar cells.
Measured strong coupling of vibrations and electrons could lead to controlled magnetism and electronic properties.
A new type of lens improves the focusing precision at the world’s most powerful X-ray light sources.
New Fresh-slice scheme provides customizable X-rays for studies needed to build more efficient electronics and cleaner energy.
Researchers trigger ultrafast response to see how molecules redistribute energy in quadrillionths of a second.
Seeding x-ray free electron lasers with customized electron beams produces incredibly stable laser pulses that could enable new scientific discoveries.
Delta undulator provides researchers with a new tool to probe chiral materials with widespread utility in agriculture and pharmaceuticals.
Previously unobserved scattering shows unexpected sensitivity to bound electrons, providing new insights into x-ray interactions with matter and opening the door to new probes of matter.
Computer algorithm recovers histories and dynamics on timescales much faster than uncertainties inherent in experimental data.
The world’s fastest images of nitrogen molecules rotating in a gas were captured using electron diffraction.
