Toward atomic resolution diffractive imaging of isolated molecules with   x-ray free-electron lasers
  We give a detailed account of the theoretical analysis and the experimental results of an x-ray-diffraction experiment on quantum-state selected and strongly laser-aligned gas-phase ensembles of the prototypical large asymmetric rotor molecule 2,5-diiodobenzonitrile, performed at the Linac Coherent Light Source [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 083002 (2014)]. This experiment is the first step toward coherent diffractive imaging of structures and structural dynamics of isolated molecules at atomic resolution, i. e., picometers and femtoseconds, using x-ray free-electron lasers. 
Stephan Stern, Lotte Holmegaard, Frank Filsinger, Arnaud Rouz\'ee,   Artem Rudenko, Per Johnsson, Andrew V. Martin, Anton Ba...
physics.atom-ph