Femtosecond electron diffraction: Heralding the era of atomically resolved dynamics

Reports on Progress in Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Sciaini, Germn ^a,b   Miller, R J Dwayne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 80052046145     PISSN: 00344885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/74/9/096101     Document Type: Review

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