Harnessing attosecond science in the quest for coherent X-rays

Science

Volumn 317, Issue 5839, 2007, Pages 775-778

  Kapteyn, Henry ^a   Cohen, Oren ^a   Christov, Ivan ^a   Murnane, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LASER; SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTRUM; X-RAY;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LASER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 34547911004     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1143679     Document Type: Review

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