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 …

Multi-objective Bayesian active learning for MeV-ultrafast electron diffraction

F Ji, A Edelen, R Roussel, X Shen, S Miskovich… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Ultrafast electron diffraction using MeV energy beams (MeV-UED) has enabled
unprecedented scientific opportunities in the study of ultrafast structural dynamics in a …

High-resolution correlative imaging in ultrafast electron microscopy

YJ Kim, WW Park, HW Nho, OH Kwon - Advances in Physics: X, 2024‏ - Taylor & Francis
Ultrafast electron microscopy (UEM) has a broad scope of application across material
systems and scientific disciplines. In UEM, we investigate multiscale dynamics in the spatial …

[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 …

Nonequilibrium dynamics of spontaneous symmetry breaking into a hidden state of charge-density wave

F Zhou, J Williams, S Sun, CD Malliakas… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Nonequilibrium phase transitions play a pivotal role in broad physical contexts, from
condensed matter to cosmology. Tracking the formation of nonequilibrium phases in …

Direct visualization of electromagnetic wave dynamics by laser-free ultrafast electron microscopy

X Fu, E Wang, Y Zhao, A Liu, E Montgomery… - Science …, 2020‏ - science.org
Integrating femtosecond lasers with electron microscopies has enabled direct imaging of
transient structures and morphologies of materials in real time and space. Here, we report …

[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 …

Design for light-based spherical aberration correction of ultrafast electron microscopes

MC Chirita Mihaila, M Kozák - Optics Express, 2025‏ - opg.optica.org
We theoretically demonstrate that ponderomotive interactions near the electron cross-over
can be used for aberration correction in ultrafast electron microscopes. Highly magnified …

Transient lensing from a photoemitted electron gas imaged by ultrafast electron microscopy

O Zandi, AE Sykes, RD Cornelius, FM Alcorn… - Nature …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Understanding and controlling ultrafast charge carrier dynamics is of fundamental
importance in diverse fields of (quantum) science and technology. Here, we create a three …