Femtosecond x-ray measurement of coherent lattice vibrations near the lindemann stability limit

Nature

Volumn 422, Issue 6929, 2003, Pages 287-289

  Sokolowski Tinten, Klaus ^a   Blome, Christian ^a   Blums, Juris ^a   Cavalleri, Andrea ^b   Dietrich, Clemens ^a   Tarasevitch, Alexander ^a   Uschmann, Ingo ^c   Förster, Eckhard ^c   Kammler, Martin ^d   Horn von Hoegen, Michael ^a   Von der Linde, Dietrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; LASER APPLICATIONS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SOLIDS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

ATOMIC DISPLACEMENTS;

LATTICE VIBRATIONS;

BISMUTH;

LATTICE DYNAMICS; PHYSICS;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; ENERGY; MEASUREMENT; MELTING POINT; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; VIBRATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0037456843     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01490     Document Type: Article

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