SLAC's High-Speed 'Electron Camera' Films Molecular Movie in HD (IMAGE)

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

SLAC's High-Speed 'Electron Camera' Films Molecular Movie in HD

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Researchers created the first atomic-resolution movie of the ring-opening reaction of 1,3-cyclohexadiene (CHD) with an 'electron camera' called UED. Bottom: The UED electron beam accurately measures the distances between pairs of atoms in the CHD molecule as the reaction proceeds. The distance between each pair is represented by a colored line in the graph. Variations in the distances as the molecule changes shape represent the molecular movie. Top: Visualization of the molecular structure corresponding to the distance distribution measured at about 380 femtoseconds into the reaction (dashed line at bottom).

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David Sanchez/Stanford University

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