latest research done by Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University provides a glance over how individual atoms move in trillionths of a second to form wrinkles on a three-atom-thick material. This has proven to be world’s speediest brand new “electron camera,” which could result in fastest growing technology of developing efficient solar cells, fast and flexible electronics and high-performance chemical catalysts.
“Combined with theoretical calculations, these data show how the light pulses generate wrinkles that have large amplitudes — more than 15 percent of the layer’s thickness — and develop extremely quickly, in about a trillionth of a second. This is the first time someone has visualized these ultrafast atomic motions,” Lindenberg said.