Researchers of the Structural and Electronic Surface Dynamics group of the FHI Department of Physical Chemistry, Berlin, in cooperation with colleagues at Theoretical Physics II & Center for Interdisciplinary Nanostructure Science and Technology of the University of Kassel, have published a joint article in the Physical Review B, demonstrating in the example of photoexcited atimony, that the entire electron-lattice interaction, particularly coherent and incoherent electron-phonon coupling, can be probed simultaneously. Femtosecond electron diffraction (FED) with high temporal resolution allowed to simultaneously observe coherent excitation of the fully symmetric A_1g optical phonon mode as well as energy transfer from electrons to phonons via incoherent electron-lattice scattering.