Direct role of structural dynamics in electron-lattice coupling of superconducting cuprates

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 51, 2008, Pages 20161-20166

  Carbone, Fabrizio ^a   Yang, Ding Shyue ^a   Giannini, Enrico ^b   Zewail, Ahmed H ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Electron diffraction; Electron phonon coupling; Superconductivity; Ultrafast

Indexed keywords

COPPER DERIVATIVE; OXYGEN;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; DYNAMICS; ELECTRON; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; HEATING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; PHONON; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUPERCONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 58149391380     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0811335106     Document Type: Article

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