New era in structural dynamics research: why will X-ray Free Electron Lasers revolutionize the X-ray Science?
DIPC Seminars
- Speaker
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Wojciech Gawelda, IMDEA-Nanociencia & Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
- When
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2022/04/29
14:00 - Place
- Hybrid Seminar, Donostia International Physics Center
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With the advent of soft- and hard X-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFEL) sources,
entirely new scientific opportunities and prospects have been become available
in the field of structural studies. One of the most unprecedented features of
XFELs is their ability to produce high intensity and fully coherent pulsed
X-ray beams, with single pulse duration well below 100 femtoseconds (1 fs
=10-15 s). This property allows dynamical studies of light-matter interactions
virtually in any medium on the very fundamental timescales of interatomic
motions, from gas-phase to complex strongly correlated solids, high-
temperature superconductors, biomolecules and various nanomaterials.
In this seminar I will present a state-of-the-art overview of the
abovementioned research venues, which highly benefit from the continuous
progress in the field of XFEL technology. In particular, I will focus on those
aspects, which profit most from the very high temporal resolution achievable
in time-resolved XFEL experiments on combination with atomic spatial
resolution.
Host: Carlos Sanchez-Cano
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