Four-wave mixing experiments with extreme ultraviolet transient gratings

Nature

Volumn 520, Issue 7546, 2015, Pages 205-208

  Bencivenga, F ^a   Cucini, R ^a   Capotondi, F ^a   Battistoni, A ^a,b   Mincigrucci, R ^a,c   Giangrisostomi, E ^a,b   Gessini, A ^a   Manfredda, M ^a   Nikolov, I P ^a   Pedersoli, E ^a   Principi, E ^a   Svetina, C ^a,b   Parisse, P ^a   Casolari, F ^a   Danailov, M B ^a   Kiskinova, M ^a   Masciovecchio, C ^a  

^a SINCROTRONE TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EXPLORATION; NUMERICAL METHOD; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SILICON; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WAVE; WAVELENGTH;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON; ENERGY; EXCITATION; FOUR WAVE MIXING; GRATING; LASER; MECHANICS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VIBRATION; X RAY;

EID: 84927555897     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14341     Document Type: Article

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