Type: Article
Publication Date: 2017-11-02
Citations: 79
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevx.7.041030
Pulses of x-ray light that last mere attoseconds are essential to capturing fundamental processes in nature, such as the motion of electrons and their role in chemical bonding. New experiments generate and, for the first time, characterize attosecond pulses in the soft-x-ray portion of the spectrum.