Attosecond electron pulses for 4D diffraction and microscopy Export

@article{PNAS2007AHZewail, abstract = {10.1073/pnas.0709019104 In this contribution, we consider the advancement of ultrafast electron diffraction and microscopy to cover the attosecond time domain. The concept is centered on the compression of femtosecond electron packets to trains of 15-attosecond pulses by the use of the ponderomotive force in synthesized gratings of optical fields. Such attosecond electron pulses are significantly shorter than those achievable with extreme UV light sources near 25 nm (≈50 eV) and have the potential for applications in the visualization of ultrafast electron dynamics, especially of atomic structures, clusters of atoms, and some materials.}, author = {Baum, Peter and Zewail, Ahmed H.}, citeulike-article-id = {3391819}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0709019104}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.pnas.org/content/104/47/18409.abstract}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.pnas.org/content/104/47/18409.full.pdf}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18000040}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=18000040}, day = {20}, doi = {10.1073/pnas.0709019104}, journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, keywords = {attosecond, electron, electron-diffraction, electron-microscopy, pulses, ultrafast}, month = {November}, number = {47}, pages = {18409--18414}, posted-at = {2008-10-09 21:54:48}, priority = {3}, title = {Attosecond electron pulses for 4D diffraction and microscopy}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0709019104}, volume = {104}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - PNAS2007AHZewail L3 - citeulike-article-id:3391819 N2 - 10.1073/pnas.0709019104 In this contribution, we consider the advancement of ultrafast electron diffraction and microscopy to cover the attosecond time domain. The concept is centered on the compression of femtosecond electron packets to trains of 15-attosecond pulses by the use of the ponderomotive force in synthesized gratings of optical fields. Such attosecond electron pulses are significantly shorter than those achievable with extreme UV light sources near 25 nm (≈50 eV) and have the potential for applications in the visualization of ultrafast electron dynamics, especially of atomic structures, clusters of atoms, and some materials. IS - 47 JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences EP - 18414 TI - Attosecond electron pulses for 4D diffraction and microscopy VL - 104 SP - 18409 KW - attosecond KW - electron KW - electron-diffraction KW - electron-microscopy KW - pulses KW - ultrafast AU - Baum, Peter AU - Zewail, Ahmed PY - 2007/11/20/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0709019104 ER -