Journal article
X-ray laser–induced electron dynamics observed by femtosecond diffraction from nanocrystals of Buckminsterfullerene
B Abbey, RA Dilanian, C Darmanin, RA Ryan, CT Putkunz, AV Martin, D Wood, V Streltsov, MWM Jones, N Gaffney, F Hofmann, GJ Williams, S Boutet, M Messerschmidt, M Marvin Seibert, S Williams, E Curwood, E Balaur, AG Peele, KA Nugent Show all
Science Advances | AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE | Published : 2016
Abstract
X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) deliver x-ray pulses with a coherent flux that is approximately eight orders of magnitude greater than that available from a modern third-generation synchrotron source. The power density of an XFEL pulse may be so high that it can modify the electronic properties of a sample on a femtosecond time scale. Exploration of the interaction of intense coherent x-ray pulses and matter is both of intrinsic scientific interest and of critical importance to the interpretation of experiments that probe the structures of materials using high-brightness femtosecond XFEL pulses. We report observations of the diffraction of extremely intense 32-fs nanofocused x-ray pulses ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The authors acknowledge the support of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging. Portions of this research were carried out at the LCLS, a national user facility operated by the Stanford University on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences. We acknowledge the travel funding provided by the International Synchrotron Access Program managed by the AS and by the Australian government. In addition, some of this research was undertaken on the MX1 and MX2 beamlines at the AS, Victoria, Australia.