Colloquium: Illuminating the Kapitza-Dirac effect with electron matter optics

Reviews of Modern Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 929-941

  Batelaan, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON BEAMS; QUANTUM THEORY;

ELECTRON MATTER OPTICS; FREE ELECTRONS; KAPITZA-DIRAC EFFECT; STANDING WAVE OF LIGHT;

FREE ENERGY;

EID: 34547222008     PISSN: 00346861     EISSN: 15390756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.79.929     Document Type: Article

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