An Artist's Representation of Ultrafast Electron Crystallography (UEC) (image)

California Institute of Technology

Caption

Using ultrafast 4-D imaging, the new UEC technique allows researchers to "film" the atomic mechanism behind the recording process in memories based on phase change materials.

Credit

Jianbo Hu, Giovanni M. Vanacore, and Ahmed H. Zewail

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