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Ultrashort electron probe opportunities

Technology borrowed from electron accelerator and beam physics looks set to push the performance of ultrafast-electron-diffraction-based pump–probe studies of matter.

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Fig. 1: The principle of the double-bend compression and jitter suppression.

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Musumeci, P. Ultrashort electron probe opportunities. Nat. Photonics 14, 199–200 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-020-0613-1

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