Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Towards ultrafast dynamics with split-pulse X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy at free electron laser sources

  • W. Roseker,
  • S. O. Hruszkewycz,
  • F. Lehmkühler,
  • M. Walther,
  • H. Schulte-Schrepping,
  • S. Lee,
  • T. Osaka,
  • L. Strüder,
  • R. Hartmann,
  • M. Sikorski,
  • S. Song,
  • A. Robert,
  • P. H. Fuoss,
  • M. Sutton,
  • G. B. Stephenson,
  • G. Grübel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04178-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy has been mainly used to measure slow dynamics using synchrotron sources. Here the authors demonstrate the split-and- delay pulse set-up to study nanosecond dynamics of gold nanoparticles using XPCS with free electron laser pulses.