Watching a solid shake itself apart: An atomic view of melting

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5448, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 485-490

  Miller, R J Dwayne ^a   Dwyer, J R ^a   Hebeisen, C T ^a   Jordan, R E ^a   Siwick, B J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Femtosecond electron diffraction; Laser induced melting; Laser matter interactions; Time resolved electron diffraction; Two temperature model; Ultrafast electron diffraction

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ATOMIC PHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; LASER APPLICATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING; PHASE TRANSITIONS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

FEMTOSECOND ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; LASER INDUCED MELTING; LASER-MATTER INTERACTIONS; TIME-RESOLVED ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; TWO-TEMPERATURE MODEL; ULTRAFAST ELECTRON DIFFRACTION;

ELECTRON BEAMS;

EID: 11844290731     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.549429     Document Type: Conference Paper

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