THE commercial availability of gas-phase lasers giving a continuous output in the visible region of the spectrum solves a problem that has been troubling users of optical diffractometers for some time ...
Tabletop system: photograph of the electron diffractometer. The green laser light is used to adjust the instrument. (Courtesy: DESY/Timm Rohwer) A compact ultrafast electron diffractometer that can ...
Scientists at DESY have built a compact electron camera that can capture the inner, ultrafast dynamics of matter. The system shoots short bunches of electrons at a sample to take snapshots of its ...