Challenges and opportunities in attosecond and XFEL science

Journal Article · Tue Jan 29 00:00:00 EST 2019 · Nature Reviews Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-019-0023-9· OSTI ID:1514996

Lindroth, Eva ^[1]; Calegari, Francesca ^[2]; Young, Linda ^[3]; Harmand, Marion ^[4]; Dudovich, Nirit ^[5]; Berrah, Nora ^[6]; Smirnova, Olga ^[7]

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1. Stockholm Univ., Stockholm (Sweden)
2. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); Hamburg Univ., Hamburg (Germany)
3. Argonne National Lab and the Univ. of Chicago, Lemont, IL (United States)
4. Sorbonne Univ., Paris (France)
5. Weizmann Inst. of Science, Rehovot (Israel)
6. Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (United States)
7. Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Berlin (Germany); Technische Univ. Berlin, Berlin (Germany)

In 2009, the world’s first hard X-FEL brought a ten-billion-fold gain in X-ray peak brightness. This fuelled the avidly pursued, but still elusive, dream of single-shot imaging of non-crystalline samples with near-atomic resolution. The overarching concept of ‘diffract-before-destroy’ imaging is that a powerful burst of ultrafast X-rays can produce a coherent diffraction pattern of a nanoscale object — before the object explodes due to Coulomb repulsion caused by a massively parallel ionization of the atoms in the sample. A collection of snapshots of identical objects in random orientations then provide information from which a 3D structure can be retrieved.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• Grant/Contract Number: AC02-06CH11357
• OSTI ID: 1514996
• Journal Information: Nature Reviews Physics, Journal Name: Nature Reviews Physics Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 1; ISSN 2522-5820
• Publisher: Springer Nature
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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