X-ray birefringence imaging

Science

Volumn 344, Issue 6187, 2014, Pages 1013-1016

  Palmer, Benjamin A ^a,c   Edwards Gau, Gregory R ^a   Kariuki, Benson M ^a   Harris, Kenneth D M ^a   Dolbnya, Igor P ^b   Collins, Stephen P ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LTD   (United Kingdom)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; IMAGING METHOD; OPTICAL METHOD; ORIENTATION; POLARIZATION;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; MICROSCOPY; OPTICS; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID STATE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; X RAY; X RAY BIREFRINGENCE IMAGING;

EID: 84901630313     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1253537     Document Type: Article

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