Ultrafast imaging of isolated molecules with electron diffraction

作者：Centurion Martin

来源：Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics , 2016, 49(6): 062002.

DOI：10.1088/0953-4075/49/6/062002

• ultrafast electron diffraction
• molecular imaging
• ultrafast imaging
• gas electron diffraction
• femtosecond electron diffraction
• molecular structure

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.

• 出版日期2016-3-28