Local probing of propagating acoustic waves in a gigahertz echo chamber

Nature Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 338-343

  Gustafsson, Martin V ^a   Santos, Paulo V ^b   Johansson, Göran ^a   Delsing, Per ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b PAUL DRUDE INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERELEKTRONIK   (Germany)

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EID: 84859435663     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2217     Document Type: Article

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