Nature Communications (Apr 2016)

Diffractive imaging of a rotational wavepacket in nitrogen molecules with femtosecond megaelectronvolt electron pulses

  • Jie Yang,
  • Markus Guehr,
  • Theodore Vecchione,
  • Matthew S. Robinson,
  • Renkai Li,
  • Nick Hartmann,
  • Xiaozhe Shen,
  • Ryan Coffee,
  • Jeff Corbett,
  • Alan Fry,
  • Kelly Gaffney,
  • Tais Gorkhover,
  • Carsten Hast,
  • Keith Jobe,
  • Igor Makasyuk,
  • Alexander Reid,
  • Joseph Robinson,
  • Sharon Vetter,
  • Fenglin Wang,
  • Stephen Weathersby,
  • Charles Yoneda,
  • Martin Centurion,
  • Xijie Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11232
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Imaging changes in molecular geometries with sufficient temporal and spatial resolution to image nuclei is a critical challenge in the chemical sciences. Here the authors report gasphase Megaelectronvolt electron diffraction with 100 fs temporal resolution and subAngstrom spatial resolution.