2010, Von Korff Schmising, C., Harpoeth, A., Zhavoronkov, N., Woerner, M., Elsaesser, T., Bargheer, M., Schmidbauer, M., Vrejoiu, I., Hesse, D., Alexe, M.

Femtosecond X-ray scattering offers the opportunity to investigate reversible lattice dynamics with unprecedented accuracy. We show in a prototype experiment how strain propagation modifies the functionality of a ferroelectric system on its intrinsic time scale.