Femtosecond diffractive imaging with a soft-X-ray free-electron laser

Nature Physics

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 839-843

  Chapman, Henry N ^a,b   Barty, Anton ^a   Bogan, Michael J ^a   Boutet, Sébastien ^a,c,d   Frank, Matthias ^a   Hau Riege, Stefan P ^a   Marchesini, Stefano ^a,b   Woods, Bruce W ^a   Bajt, Saša ^a   Benner, W Henry ^a   London, Richard A ^a,b   Plönjes, Elke ^e   Kuhlmann, Marion ^e   Treusch, Rolf ^e   Düsterer, Stefan ^e   Tschentscher, Thomas ^e   Schneider, Jochen R ^e   Spiller, Eberhard ^f   Möller, Thomas ^g   Bostedt, Christoph ^g   Hoener, Matthias ^g   Shapiro, David A ^b   Hodgson, Keith O ^c   Van Der Spoel, David ^d   Burmeister, Florian ^d   Bergh, Magnus ^d   Caleman, Carl ^d   Huldt, Gösta ^d   Seibert, M Marvin ^d   Maia, Filipe R N C ^d   Lee, Richard W ^a,d   Szöke, Abraham ^a,d   Timneanu, Nicusor ^d   Hajdu, Janos ^c,d   more..

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e DESY   (Germany)

^f Spiller X ray Optics   (United States)

^g TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT SCATTERING; DIFFRACTION PATTERNS; ELECTRONS; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; INTERFEROMETRY; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; VIRUSES; X RAY CAMERAS;

COHERENT DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTION-LIMITED RESOLUTION; DIFFRACTIVE IMAGING; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; SINGLE PHOTON DETECTION; SOFT-X-RAY FREE-ELECTRON-LASER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA;

X RAYS;

EID: 33845186032     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys461     Document Type: Article

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