Soon after it was discovered that intense laser pulses of nanosecond duration from a ruby
laser could anneal the lattice of silicon, it was established that this so-called pulsed laser …

With the recent advances in ultrabright electron and x-ray sources, it is now possible to
extend crystallography to the femtosecond time domain to literally light up atomic motions …

Femtosecond x-ray and visible pulses were used to probe structural and electronic
dynamics during an optically driven, solid-solid phase transition in VO 2. For high interband …

Femtosecond visible and infrared analogues of multiple-pulse nuclear magnetic resonance
techniques provide novel snapshot probes into the structure and electronic and vibrational …

Ultrafast time-resolved optical spectroscopy has revealed new classes of physical, chemical
and biological reactions, in which directed, deterministic motions of atoms have a key role …

▪ Abstract In this review, we highlight the progress made in the development of 4D ultrafast
electron diffraction (UED), crystallography (UEC), and microscopy (UEM) with a focus on …

The study of phase-transition dynamics in solids beyond a time-averaged kinetic description
requires direct measurement of the changes in the atomic configuration along the physical …

Femtosecond synchrotron pulses were generated directly from an electron storage ring. An
ultrashort laser pulse was used to modulate the energy of electrons within a 100 …

The development of femtosecond lasers brought entirely new possibilities into the practice of
timeresolved spectroscopy, for both UV-vis and IR-Raman spectroscopies. In addition, it has …

Ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) has been developed to study transient structures in
complex chemical reactions initiated with femtosecond laser pulses. This direct imaging of …