Photoinduced charge-density-wave dynamics in K 0.3MoO 3

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2169-2171

  Ren, Yuhang ^a,c   Lüpke, Gunter ^a   Xu, Zhu'an ^b  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY; PHASONS;

ANISOTROPY; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; FREQUENCIES; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 11144355870     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1689391     Document Type: Article

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