Journal of Synchrotron Radiation

Volume 14, Part 3 (May 2007)


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J. Synchrotron Rad. (2007). 14, 288-294    [ doi:10.1107/S0909049507011144 ]

Small-angle pump-probe studies of photoexcited nanoparticles

A. Plech, V. Kotaidis, K. Istomin and M. Wulff

Abstract: X-ray scattering experiments on femtosecond laser-excited gold nanoparticle suspensions are presented. It is shown that the time-resolved pump-probe technique using the X-ray pulse structure at synchrotron sources is capable of resolving structural dynamics on the nanometer scale to high precision. The estimation of X-ray flux density allows the projection of experiments on an X-ray free-electron laser probing single nanoparticles in a one-shot exposure.

Keywords: small-angle scattering; nanoparticles; femtosecond laser; picosecond time resolution.

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