Watching energy flow in solids with ultrafast electron bursts

Published: 12 June 2018

The way individual atoms and molecules move in materials has important consequences on properties such as electrical conductivity, heat capacity and acoustics.  Even in solids, atoms are always...

Watching the hidden life of materials

Published: 27 October 2014

Researchers at McGill University have succeeded in simultaneously observing the reorganizations of atomic positions and electron distribution during the transformation of the “smart material”...

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