Non-thermal hot electrons ultrafastly generating hot optical phonons in graphite

Scientific Reports

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ishida, Y ^a,b   Togashi, T ^b   Yamamoto, K ^b,c   Tanaka, M ^a   Taniuchi, T ^a   Kiss, T ^a   Nakajima, M ^a   Suemoto, T ^a   Shin, S ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKEN SPring 8 Center   (Japan)

^c Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

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EID: 84860153019     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00064     Document Type: Article

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