Diffractive imaging of highly focused X-ray fields

Nature Physics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 101-104

  Quiney, H M ^a   Peele, A G ^b   Gai, Z ^c   Paterson, D ^c   Nugent, K A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SPECKLE;

COHERENT DIFFRACTION; COHERENT X-RAY SOURCE; FEMTOSECOND TIME SCALE; HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION; LENSLESS IMAGING TECHNIQUE; SPECKLE INTERFEROMETRY; X RAY PHOTON CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; X-RAY FREE ELECTRON LASERS;

PHOTON CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 33646690297     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys218     Document Type: Article

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