Ultrafast Snapshots of the Molecules Twisting in Liquid Crystal State

• DOI: 10.1364/up.2016.uth2b.2
• Publication Date: 2016-09-30T16:11:56Z
• Authors: Masaki Hada; Shohei Saito; Sei’ichi Tanaka; Ryuma Sato; Kyohei Matsuo; Mitsuo Hara; Yasuhiko Hayashi; Kazuhiro Mouri; Masahiko Yoshimura; Yasuteru Shigeta; Shigehiro Yamaguchi; Ken Onda; R. J. Dwayne Miller
• Keywords: Ultrafast electron diffraction; Crystal (programming language)

We demonstrated time-resolved electron diffraction and vibrational spectroscopy to characterize the structure dynamics of molecules in liquid crystal state. Our findings present ultrafast local deformation triggering helical twisting motion molecules.