Femtosecond time-resolved reflection spectrescopy of photoinduced ionic-neutral phase transition in TTF-CA crystals

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 14, 2004, Pages

  Tanimura, Katsumi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EXCITATION; LIGHT; PHASE TRANSITION; PHONON; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 42749105466     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.144112     Document Type: Article

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