FLASH Imaging Redux: Nano-Cinema is Born

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Soft X-rays from the FLASH laser capture the action as a tiny silicon nitride wafer explodes.
Soft X-rays from the FLASH laser capture the action as a tiny silicon nitride wafer explodes.
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Flash imaging of nanoscale objects undergoing ultrafast changes is now a technical possibility, according to a recent paper published in the June 22 edition of Nature Photonics. The results are a direct precursor to research that will be conducted using SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS).


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