An instrument that uses high-energy electrons to take "snapshots" of ultrafast chemical processes at the atomic and molecular level just got a major upgrade. Researchers have conducted the first ...

SLAC staff scientist Alexander Reid was the first user of the lab's electron camera for ultrafast electron diffraction (MeV-UED) since it became available to the international community as part of the ...

A new scientific instrument at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory promises to capture some of nature's speediest processes. It uses a method known as ultrafast electron ...

While taking snapshots with the high-speed “electron camera” at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Acceleratory Laboratory, researchers discovered new behavior in an ultrathin material that ...

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Internal frame rate/frame transfer to computer 320 fps, max dose rate of ~12 electron/pixel/second File formats EER (includes 16k x 16k super-resolution data, all frames accessible – fractionation not ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their collaborators have developed a way to retrofit the transmission electron microscope -- a ...

Scientists have caught fast-moving hydrogen atoms—the keys to countless biological and chemical reactions—in action. A team led by researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator ...

As reported in Nano Letters ("Giant Terahertz Birefringence in an Ultrathin Anisotropic Semimetal"), the team, led by SLAC and Stanford professor Aaron Lindenberg, found that when oriented in a ...