An ellipsoidal mirror for focusing neutral atomic and molecular beams

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Fladischer, K ^a,i   Reingruber, H ^a,j   Reisinger, T ^a,b   Mayrhofer, V ^a   Ernst, W E ^a   Ross, A E ^c,k   MacLaren, D A ^c,i,l   Allison, W ^c   Litwin, D ^d   Galas, J ^d   Sitarek, S ^d   Nieto, P ^e   Barredo, D ^e   Farias, D ^e   Miranda, R ^e,f   Surma, B ^g   Miros, A ^g,l   Piatkowski, B ^g   Sondergard E ^h   Hoist, B ^a,b,i  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF APPLIED OPTICS   (Poland)

^e UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^f INSTITUTO MADRILEÑO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS EN NANOCIENCIA IMDEA NANOCIENCIA   (Spain)

^g ukasiewicz Research Network Institute of Microelectronics and Photonics   (Poland)

^h SAINT GOBAIN RECHERCHE   (France)

ⁱ Austrian Centre for Electron Microscopy and Nanoanalysis   (Austria)

^j UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^k UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^l Technokabel SA   (Poland)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC BEAMS; ATOMS; FOCUSING; GROUND STATE; HELIUM; INTERFEROMETRY; MIRRORS; MOLECULAR BEAMS;

ATOM INTERFEROMETRY; ATOM LITHOGRAPHY; ELLIPSOIDAL MIRRORS; EXCITATION STATE; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; GROUND-STATE HELIUM; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; POLARIZABILITIES;

ATOM LASERS;

EID: 77951152040     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/3/033018     Document Type: Article

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