generally arranged at a distance of 0.1 nm to 0.5 nm from one another. When such a substance is irradiated with X-rays having a wavelength roughly equivalent to the interatomic or intermolecular distance, the Xray diffraction phenomenon will take place. X-ray diffraction is widely used in the semiconductor field because it is nondestructive and yields crystal structure information relatively ea...

Time-resolved x-ray diffraction with picosecond temporal resolution is used to probe the product state of a coherent control experiment in which a single acoustic mode in a bulk semiconductor is driven to large amplitude or canceled out. It is demonstrated that by shaping ultrafast acoustic pulses one can coherently control the x-ray diffraction efficiency of a crystal on the time scale of a vi...