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most citedX-ray diffraction from isolated and strongly aligned gas-phase molecules with a free-electron laser

272 citations · 603 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

physics.optics2026

Optical parametric multi-pass cell amplifier

Supriya Rajhans, Nikolas Rupp, Esmerando Escoto +14

Ultrafast lasers with simultaneously high average and peak power have become indispensable for driving a multitude of applications, including high-harmonic generation, strong-field…

physics.optics2025

Fluorescence intensity correlations enable 3D imaging without sample rotations

Robert G. Radloff, Felix F. Zimmermann, Siqi Li +23

Lensless X-ray imaging provides element-specific nanoscale insights into thick samples beyond the reach of conventional light and electron microscopy. Coherent diffraction imaging…

physics.optics2025

Nonlinear reversal of photo-excitation on the attosecond time scale improves ultrafast x-ray diffraction images

Anatoli Ulmer, Phay J. Ho, Bruno Langbehn +28

The advent of isolated and intense sub-femtosecond X-ray pulses enables tracking of quantummechanical motion of electrons in molecules and solids. The combination of X-ray spectros…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 1 cited

Ultra-fast yttrium hydride chemistry at high pressures via non-equilibrium states induced by x-ray free electron laser

Emily Siska, G. Alexander Smith, Sergio Villa-Cortes +24

Controlling the formation and stoichiometric content of desired phases of materials has become a central interest for the study of a variety of fields, notably high temperature sup…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 17 cited

Simultaneous Bright- and Dark-Field X-ray Microscopy at X-ray Free Electron Lasers

Leora E. Dresselhaus-Marais, Bernard Kozioziemski, Theodor S. Holstad +40

The structures, strain fields, and defect distributions in solid materials underlie the mechanical and physical properties across numerous applications. Many modern microstructural…

physics.optics2022★ 4 cited

Enhanced ultrafast X-ray diffraction by transient resonances

Stephan Kuschel, Phay J. Ho, Andre Al Haddad +15

Diffraction-before-destruction imaging with single ultrashort X-ray pulses has the potential to visualise non-equilibrium processes, such as chemical reactions, at the nanoscale wi…

physics.plasm-ph2021★ 19 cited

Few-femtosecond resolved imaging of laser-driven nanoplasma expansion

C. Peltz, J. A. Powell, P. Rupp +23

The free expansion of a planar plasma surface is a fundamental non-equilibrium process relevant for various fields but as-yet experimentally still difficult to capture. The signifi…

physics.atom-ph2018★ 25 cited

Ultrafast x-ray-induced nuclear dynamics in diatomic molecules using femtosecond x-ray/x-ray pump-probe spectroscopy

C. S. Lehmann, A. Picón, C. Bostedt +22

The capability of generating two intense, femtosecond x-ray pulses with controlled time delay opens the possibility of performing time-resolved experiments for x-ray induced phenom…

physics.atm-clus2017★ 72 cited

Femtosecond X-ray Fourier holography imaging of free-flying nanoparticles

Tais Gorkhover, Anatoli Ulmer, Ken Ferguson +35

Ultrafast X-ray imaging provides high resolution information on individual fragile specimens such as aerosols, metastable particles, superfluid quantum systems and live biospecimen…

physics.atm-clus2016

Diffractive imaging of transient electronic core-shell structures in a nanoplasma

Daniela Rupp, Leonie Flückiger, Marcus Adolph +13

We have recorded the coherent diffraction images of individual xenon clusters with intense extreme ultraviolet pulses to elucidate the influence of light-induced electronic changes…

physics.atom-ph2015★ 126 cited

Diffractive imaging of a molecular rotational wavepacket with femtosecond Megaelectronvolt electron pulses

Jie Yang, Markus Guehr, Theodore Vecchione +20

Imaging changes in molecular geometries on their natural femtosecond timescale with sub-Angstrom spatial precision is one of the critical challenges in the chemical sciences, since…

physics.atom-ph2014★ 67 cited

Imaging Molecular Structure through Femtosecond Photoelectron Diffraction on Aligned and Oriented Gas-Phase Molecules

R. Boll, A. Rouzee, M. Adolph +49

This paper gives an account of our progress towards performing femtosecond time-resolved photoelectron diffraction on gas-phase molecules in a pump-probe setup combining optical la…

physics.atom-ph2013★ 272 cited

X-ray diffraction from isolated and strongly aligned gas-phase molecules with a free-electron laser

Jochen Küpper, Stephan Stern, Lotte Holmegaard +52

We report experimental results on x-ray diffraction of quantum-state-selected and strongly aligned ensembles of the prototypical asymmetric rotor molecule 2,5-diiodobenzonitrile us…