Probing phase transitions under extreme conditions by ultrafast techniques: Advances at the Fermi@Elettra free-electron-laser facility

Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids

Volumn 357, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 2641-2647

  Di Cicco, Andrea ^a,b,c   D'Amico, Francesco ^b   Zgrablic, Goran ^b   Principi, Emiliano ^a   Gunnella, Roberto ^a   Bencivenga, Filippo ^b   Svetina, Cristian ^b   Masciovecchio, Claudio ^b   Parmigiani, Fulvio ^b   Filipponi, Adriano ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b SINCROTRONE TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Free electron; Laser high temperature; Liquids femto second experiments; Warm dense matter

Indexed keywords

DENSE MATTER; DYNAMICS OF PHASE TRANSITIONS; EXTREME CONDITIONS; FREE ELECTRON; HIGH DENSITY; HIGH INTENSITY; HIGH-TEMPERATURE REGIME; LASER SOURCES; MELTING PROCESS; META-STABLE CONDITION; NOVEL ROUTE; PHOTON PULSE; PRESENT STATUS; PUMP-AND-PROBE; SIMPLE LIQUIDS; SUBPICOSECOND; SUPERCONTINUUM; TRANSITION REGIONS; ULTRA-FAST;

DENSITY OF LIQUIDS; ELECTRONS; EXPERIMENTS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PROBES; PUMPING (LASER); PUMPS; WAVE PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

FREE ELECTRON LASERS;

EID: 79958124545     PISSN: 00223093     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2011.02.039     Document Type: Conference Paper

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