Synchronized lasers measure how light changes matter: Effects of light at atomic scale probed by mixing x-ray and optical light waves

How matter responds to light lies at the core of vision, photosynthesis, solar cells, and many other fields of scientific and practical import. But until now, it hasn't been possible to see just how light does it. Now, scientists have demonstrated for the first time that x-ray and optical wave mixing reveals both structure and evolving charge states on the atomic scale.

Read the whole article on Science Daily

More from Science Daily