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Ultrafast Imaging Of Isolated Molecules With Electron Diffraction, Martin Centurion
Ultrafast Imaging Of Isolated Molecules With Electron Diffraction, Martin Centurion
Martin Centurion Publications
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.