High-coherence electron and ion bunches from laser-cooled atoms

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1008-1014

  Sparkes, Ben M ^a   Thompson, Daniel J ^a   McCulloch, Andrew J ^a   Murphy, Dene ^a   Speirs, Rory W ^a   Torrance, Joshua S J ^a   Scholten, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

coherence; cold atom physics; electron beam; electron diffraction; ion beam; space charge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905223992     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: 14358115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927614000774     Document Type: Article

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