Speaker
Description
Recently, MeV ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) has emerged as a powerful and productive research tool for studying non-equilibrium processes on atomic-level spatial and temporal scales. Electron probes provide unique information about structure dynamics that is complementary to X-rays and optical lasers. High impact science outcomes using MeV UED are enabled by the performance of the entire instrument as well as appropriate choices of the scientific problems. In this talk, I will share some of my thoughts on how to optimize and operate an MeV UED apparatus and carry out experiments with a team composed of accelerator people and science users. I will also briefly introduce recent efforts at Tsinghua University that are relevant to high brightness electron sources and beams that can potentially benefit future UED applications.
