Ultrafast changes in lattice symmetry probed by coherent phonons

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Wall, S ^a   Wegkamp, D ^a   Foglia, L ^a   Appavoo, K ^b   Nag, J ^b   Haglund, R F ^b   Stahler J ^a   Wolf, M ^a  

^a FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOFILM; VANADIUM;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LASER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PROBE; OSCILLATION; PHASE TRANSITION; PHONON; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84859168501     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1719     Document Type: Article

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