Status and prospects of x-ray free-electron lasers (X-FELs): A simple presentation

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 45, Issue 21, 2012, Pages

  Ribic, Primoz Rebernik ^a   Margaritondo, G ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE ELECTRON LASERS;

ACTUAL EXPERIMENTS; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; PRESENT STATUS; STATUS AND PROSPECT; X-RAY FREE ELECTRON LASERS;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 84861027690     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/45/21/213001     Document Type: Review

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