Electron pulse compression with a practical reflectron design for ultrafast electron diffraction

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 140-147

  Wang, Yihua ^a   Gedik, Nuh ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron pulse compression; reflectron; structural dynamics; ultrafast electron diffraction (UED)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON PULSE; FOCAL POINTS; HIGH BRIGHTNESS; REFLECTRONS; STATE OF THE ART; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; TEMPORAL BROADENING; TEMPORAL COMPRESSIONS; TIME-RESOLVED; ULTRAFAST ELECTRON DIFFRACTION;

COMPRESSION RATIO (MACHINERY); PULSE COMPRESSION; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 84856970725     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2011.2112339     Document Type: Review

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