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Attosecond Lasers Produce Electron Movies

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 16, 2011 — Hoping to gain a clearer understanding of what happens during chemical reactions, a team of researchers is working to create a laser device that can release bursts of laser light to capture individual electrons as they orbit the nucleus — much like a movie. The researchers are from MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics, the University of Sydney in Australia, Polytechnic University of Milan in Italy and Hamburg University in Germany. Achieving this phenomenon is difficult, considering that the electron in a hydrogen atom completes a full orbit around an atomic nucleus in...Read full article

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    Published: August 2011
    Americasattosecond laser pulseBasic ScienceBiophotonicschemical reactionselectronsHamburg Universityhydrogen atomlaser lightLight Sourceslight wavesMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyMITnucleusPolytechnic University of MilanResearch & Technologytime-resolved spectroscopyUniversity of SydneyLasers

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