High-coherence picosecond electron bunches from cold atoms

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  McCulloch, A J ^a   Sheludko, D V ^a   Junker, M ^a   Scholten, R E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; CRYSTALLINITY; DIFFRACTION; DRUG; ELECTRON; IONIZATION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TIMESCALE;

ARTICLE; ATOM; ELECTRON; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; FEMTOSECOND LASER; IONIZATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; ULTRAFAST ELECTRON DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84877756509     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2699     Document Type: Article

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