Abstract
Imaging with ultrashort electron pulses allows visualizing atomic-scale motions in all four dimensions of space and time. We report the transitional structures and mechanism of the ultrafast insulator-to-metal phase transformation in crystalline vanadium dioxide.
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Baum, P., Yang, DS., Zewail, A.H. (2009). Four-dimensional Visualization of Transitional Structures in Phase Transformations by Electron Diffraction. In: Corkum, P., Silvestri, S., Nelson, K., Riedle, E., Schoenlein, R. (eds) Ultrafast Phenomena XVI. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 92. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-95946-5_38
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