Optical excitation and detection of picosecond acoustic pulses in liquid mercury

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Wright, O B ^a   Perrin, B ^b   Matsuda, O ^a   Gusev, V E ^c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUT DES NANOSCIENCES DE PARIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU MAINE   (France)

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EID: 48749109568     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.024303     Document Type: Article

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