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 …

Time-resolved transmission electron microscopy for nanoscale chemical dynamics

FM Alcorn, PK Jain, RM van der Veen - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
The ability of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to image a structure ranging from
millimetres to Ångströms has made it an indispensable component of the toolkit of modern …

Attosecond electron microscopy by free-electron homodyne detection

JH Gaida, H Lourenço-Martins, M Sivis, T Rittmann… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Time-resolved electron microscopy aims to track nanoscale excitations and dynamic states
of matter at a temporal resolution ultimately reaching the attosecond regime. Periodically …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of a time-resolved electron microscope with a Schottky field emission gun

PK Olshin, M Drabbels, UJ Lorenz - Structural Dynamics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The rapid growth of the field of time-resolved and ultrafast electron microscopy has been
accompanied by the active development of new instrumentation. Recently, time-resolved …

[HTML][HTML] Low repetition-rate, high-resolution femtosecond transmission electron microscopy

DJ Flannigan, WA Curtis, EJ VandenBussche… - The Journal of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The spatial and energy resolutions of state-of-the-art transmission electron microscopes
(TEMs) have surpassed 50 pm and 5 meV. However, with respect to the time domain, even …

[HTML][HTML] Relativistic ultrafast electron diffraction at high repetition rates

KM Siddiqui, DB Durham, F Cropp, F Ji… - Structural …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The ability to resolve the dynamics of matter on its native temporal and spatial scales
constitutes a key challenge and convergent theme across chemistry, biology, and materials …

[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 …

In situ electron microscopy of transformations of copper nanoparticles under plasmonic excitation

FM Alcorn, RM van der Veen, PK Jain - Nano letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Metal nanoparticles are attracting interest for their light-absorption properties, but such
materials are known to dynamically evolve under the action of chemical and physical …

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 …

Watching plasmon-induced nanoparticle Ostwald ripening

FM Alcorn, M Chattoraj… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Light-absorbing plasmonic nanostructures are used in a variety of applications, including
photocatalysis and sensing. Because structure is intricately linked to function and …