Electron diffraction studies of structural dynamics of bismuth nanoparticles

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 9035-9041

  Esmail, Ahmed R ^a,b   Bugayev, Aleksey ^a   Elsayed Ali, Hani E ^a  

^a Old Dominion University ^*  (United States)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH NANOPARTICLES; DIFFRACTION PEAKS; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION STUDY; HOT-ELECTRON BLAST FORCE; LATTICE CONTRACTION; LATTICE RESPONSE; TRANSIENT DECAY; ULTRAFAST ELECTRON DIFFRACTION;

BISMUTH; LASER EXCITATION; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84877083385     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp401902t     Document Type: Article

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