Publications

Recent Publications

• Computational and experimental characterizations of high-brightness beams for femtosecond electron imaging and spectroscopy (Appl. Phys.  Lett. 103, 253115 (2013)).

• Light-induced charge carrier dynamics at nanostructured interfaces investigated by ultrafast electron diffractive photovoltammetry  (Book chapter in Quantum Dot Solar Cells, Springer Series in Materials Science, 2013).

• Anisotropic electron-phonon coupling investigated by ultrafast electron crystallography: Three-temperature model (Phys. Rev. B 87, 235124 (2013)).

• Decoupling of structural and electronic phase transitions in VO2 (Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 166406 (2012)).

• Structural dynamics of two-dimensional charge-density waves in CeTe3 investigated by ultrafast electron crystallography (Phys. Rev. B 86, 075145 (2012)).

• Space charge effects in ultrafast electron diffraction and imaging (J. Appl. Phys. 111, 044316 (2012)).

• A brief Review: Ultrafast Electron Diffractive Voltammetry:. General Formalism and Applications ( Modern Phys. Lett. B 25, 2099 (2011)).

• Quantitative nanoparticle structures from electron crystallography data (Phys. Rev. B 81, 134104 (2010)).

• Electronically driven fragmentation of Ag nanocrystals revealed by ultrafast electron crystallography ( Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 123401(2010))

• Ultrafast imaging of photoelectron packets generated from graphite surface ( Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 181108(2009))

• The development and applications of ultrafast electron nanocrystallography (Review article, Micros. Microanal. special issue on Ultrafast electron microscopy and ultrafast sciences, 15, 323 (2009)).

• Direct observation of optically induced transient structures in graphite using ultrafast electron crystallography (Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 077401 (2008)).

• Photovoltage dynamics of the hydroxylated Si(111) surface investigated by ultrafast electron diffraction (Phys. Rev. B 77, 245329(2008)).

• Dynamics of size-selected gold nanoparticles studied by ultrafast electron nanocrystallography (Nano Lett. 7, 1290 (2007)).

Selected Previous Publications

1. C.-Y. Ruan, V. Franco, V.A. Lobastov, S. Chen, A.H. Zewail, “Ultrafast electron crystallography :  transient structures of molecules, surfaces and phase transitions”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (101), 1123 (2004)

2. C.-Y. Ruan, V.A. Lobastov, V. Franco, S. Chen, A.H. Zewail, “Ultrafast electron crystallography of Interfacial Water”, Science (304), 5667 (2004).

3. C.-Y. Ruan, S.-S. Yang, A.H. Zewail, “Structures and Dynamics of Self-Assembled Surface Monolayers Observed by Ultrafast Electron Crystallography”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 12797 (2004)

4. C.-Y. Ruan, V.A. Lobastov, R. Srinivasan, B.M. Goodson, H. Ihee, A.H. Zewail, “Ultrafast diffraction and structural dynamics: The nature of complex molecules far from equilibrium”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A . (98), 7117 (2001)

5.  H. Ihee, V. A. Lobastov, U. Gomez, B. M. Goodson,  R. Srinivasan,  C.-Y.  Ruan, A. H. Zewail, “Direct Imaging of Transient Molecular Structures with Ultrafast Diffraction”, Science (291), 458 (2001).