Femtosecond electrons probing currents and atomic structure in nanomaterials

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Müller, Melanie ^a   Paarmann, Alexander ^a   Ernstorfer, Ralph ^a  

^a FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOWIRE;

CRYSTALLINITY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; LIGHT SCATTERING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WAVE PROPERTY;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISPERSION; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON; ELECTRON BEAM; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; FEMTOSECOND LOW ENERGY ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; FEMTOSECOND POINT PROJECTION MICROSCOPY; FIELD EMISSION; MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84923296600     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6292     Document Type: Article

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