July 21, 2025 Our article " Super-resolution Femtosecond Electron Diffraction Reveals Electronic and Nuclear Dynamics at Conical Intersections" is published in Nature Communications.
May 2, 2025 Prof. Yong gave an invited talk at Caught in Action: Time-Resolved Science at Lightsources Workshop organized by Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) and Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
March 6, 2025 Congratulations to Zilong Tang for his successful defense and earning his M.S. degree! His thesis title is: Simulating Twisted X-ray Diffraction Patterns for Molecular Structure Imaging.
Feb 19, 2025 Our article "Diffractive imaging of transient electronic coherences in molecules with electron vortices" is published in Phys. Rev. Lett. Congratulations to Haowei! Please see also the Research Alerts in UC San Diego Today: A new way to observe electrons in motion.
Feb, 2025 Welcome Ching-Chi Hang to join the group!
Jan 31, 2025 Our article "Unveiling Molecular Symmetry through Twisted X-Ray Diffraction" is published in ChemPhysChem. Congratulations to Roya and Zilong!
Jan 20, 2025 Our article "Revealing Local Structures of Chiral Molecules via X-ray Circular Dichroism" is published in J. Phys. Chem. Lett. Congratulations to Ramesh!
Sep, 2024 Welcome Sasha Fraser to join the group!
Sep 26, 2024 Prof. Yong gave an invited talk at the LCLS Users' Meeting Workshop: Imaging Ultrafast Motion with Attosecond Hard X-Ray Pulses at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
Aug 10, 2024 Our Perspective article "Pushing the limits of ultrafast diffraction: Imaging quantum coherences in isolated molecules" is published in iScience. This is an invited article for the Special Issue: Free Electron Lasers. Congratulations to Zilong and Ramesh!
July, 2024 Welcome Dr. Roya Moghaddasi Fereidani and Nicole Muir to join the group!
April 18, 2024 Our article "Chemical bond reorganization in intramolecular proton transfer revealed by ultrafast X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy" is published in PNAS. This research is in collaboration with Prof. Mukamel's group at UC Irvine.
April 12, 2024 Prof. Yong gave an invited seminar in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at San Diego State University.
April, 2024 Welcome Haowei Wu to join the group!
Dec 20, 2023 Our Book Chapter "Time-resolved x-ray scattering of excited state structure and dynamics" is online. This chapter is written by Prof. Yong, Prof. Kirrander (University of Oxford) and Prof. Weber (Brown University). The full book is edited by Kasra Amini, Arnaud Rouzée and Marc J J Vrakking.
Dec 14, 2023 Prof. Yong gave an invited Photon Science Seminar at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford Univerisity.
Dec, 2023 Welcome Dr. Ramesh Jarupula and Zilong Tang to join the group!
Oct 3, 2023 Congratulations to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier on winning the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 for their experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter. Their work has made our group's research in studying attosecond electron dynamics possible.
July 1, 2023 Welcome to the website of the Yong Group at the University of California San Diego. We are actively recruiting motivated postdoc researchers, visiting students/scholars, graduate and undergraduate students.