High-coherence electron bunches produced by femtosecond photoionization

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Engelen, W J ^a   Van Der Heijden, M A ^a   Bakker, D J ^a   Vredenbregt, E J D ^a   Luiten, O J ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON; IONIZATION; MEMBRANE; PROTEIN; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; X-RAY;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON; EXTRACTION; FEMTOSECOND PHOTOIONIZATION; IONIZATION; LASER; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84877726632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2700     Document Type: Article

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