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The team used electrical pulses, shown here in blue, to turn their custom-made switches on and off several times. They timed these electrical pulses to arrive just before the electron pulses produced by SLAC's ultrafast electron diffraction source MeV-UED, which captured the atomic motions happening inside these switches as they turned on and off.
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Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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