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Ultrafast materials science and 4D imaging with atomic resolution both in space and time
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 February 2011
Abstract
Ultrafast science—the study of highly complex and extremely short-lived transient events—has become an area of significant interest in the materials sciences, physics, chemistry, and biology. This article focuses on the state-of-the-art instrumentation and a few of the available probes and techniques, and intends to give a brief overview of the possibilities and challenges for ultrafast materials sciences and for the instrumentation that is required. The pulsed laser-material interactions are briefly introduced, since they are the principal methods to access and trigger ultrafast processes in materials. The associated time and length scales and a few experimental possibilities in the materials sciences are discussed in the first part of this article. The second part deals with the two most applicable types of pulsed probes, x-rays and electrons, and the associated methods to interrogate ultrafast processes. Emphasis is on their differences, capabilities, and limitations.
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- MRS Bulletin , Volume 36 , Issue 2: Contact materials for nanoelectronics , February 2011 , pp. 121 - 131
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- Copyright © Materials Research Society 2011
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