Transient electronic structure and melting of a charge density wave in TbTe3

Science

Volumn 321, Issue 5896, 2008, Pages 1649-1652

  Schmitt, F ^a   Kirchmann, P S ^b   Bovensiepen, U ^b   Moore, R G ^a,c   Rettig, L ^b   Krenz, M ^b   Chu, J H ^a   Ru, N ^a   Perfetti, L ^b   Lu, D H ^c   Wolf, M ^b,d   Fisher, I R ^a,e   Shen, Z X ^a,c,e  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELLURIUM DERIVATIVE; TERBIUM;

MELTING; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; REAL TIME; SPECTROSCOPY; VIBRATION;

ARTICLE; DENSITY; MODEL; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; VIBRATION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 52249100796     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1160778     Document Type: Article

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