Examining electron-boson coupling using time-resolved spectroscopy

Physical Review X

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Sentef, Michael ^a   Kemper, Alexander F ^b   Moritz, Brian ^a,c,d   Freericks, James K ^e   Shen, Zhi Xun ^a,f,g   Devereaux, Thomas P ^a,g  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^d NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE TEMPERATURE; ELECTRON-PHONON COUPLING STRENGTHS; PHONON FREQUENCIES; QUANTITATIVE EXTRACTION; RELAXATIONAL DYNAMICS; TEMPORAL STRUCTURES; TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY; TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTRON-PHONON INTERACTIONS;

LASER SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84893648754     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.3.041033     Document Type: Article

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