An international team of researchers succeeded at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics to control and monitor strongly accelerated electrons from nano-spheres with extremely short and intense laser pulses. (Nature Physics,...read more »

Researchers from the FOM institutes AMOLF and Rijnhuizen are the first in history to have made a hologram of an atom by using its own electrons. They did this using the unique properties of FELICE, Rijnhuizen’s new free electron...read more »

In order to understand the behaviour of atoms and molecules, it does not suffice to know their structure, but physicists furthermore want to observe their motions, and the motions of the electrons that are contained in them....read more »

For the first time ever, a European research team has managed to use attosecond laser pulses to observe the motion of electrons in molecules. This work is an important step in unraveling the movements of electrons that are at the...read more »

AMOLF researchers, in cooperation with groups in Milan (Italy), Lund (Sweden) and Paris (France), have used laser pulses lasting only a few hundred attoseconds to observe and study vibrations in hydrogen, the fastest vibrating...read more »

The development of new x-ray free-electron lasers opens the perspective for following changes in molecular structures during a (bio) chemical reaction through x-ray diffraction. A requirement however is that all molecules have to...read more »