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Electron diffraction

Cool beams in great shape

A demonstration of the ability to produce arbitrary-shaped electron bunches from an ultracold gas represents an important step towards studying ultrafast molecular processes in laboratories around the world.

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Figure 1: Arbitrarily shaped electron beams from a cold atomic gas.

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Vredenbregt, E., Luiten, J. Cool beams in great shape. Nature Phys 7, 747–748 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2084

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