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Nature Physics 2, 799 - 800 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nphys474

Subject Categories: Optical physics | Techniques and instrumentation

Free-electron lasers: FLASH microscopy

Janos Kirz1

  1. Janos Kirz is in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA, and at the Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720-8229, USA. e-mail: jkirz@lbl.gov


An ultrafast diffractive imaging technique that reconstructs an object's structure from a single short X-ray pulse is an important step towards the superlative spatial and temporal resolution promised by next-generation free-electron lasers.

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