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DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Snapshots

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This illustration shows snapshots of the light-triggered transition of the ring-shaped 1,3-cyclohexadiene (CHD) molecule (background) to its stretched-out 1,3,5-hexatriene (HT) form (foreground). The snapshots were taken with SLAC's high-speed "electron camera" - an instrument for ultrafast electron diffraction (UED).

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Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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