Temporal lenses for attosecond and femtosecond electron pulses

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

Volumn 106, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 10558-10563

  Hilbert, Shawn A ^a   Uiterwaal, Cornelis ^a   Barwick, Brett ^b   Batelaan, Herman ^a   Zewail, Ahmed H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attosecond imaging; Ultrafast techniques

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTOSECOND IMAGING; ELECTRON; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY; IMAGING; LIGHT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; ULTRAFAST IMAGING; VELOCITY;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRONS; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL PROCESSES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67649817152     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0904912106     Document Type: Article

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