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Advances in Condensed Matter Physics
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 958618, 27 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/958618
Real-Time Observation of Cuprates Structural Dynamics by Ultrafast Electron Crystallography
1Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology, Arthur Amos Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
2 Laboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
3MIT Department of Physics, 77 Mass. Avenue, Bldg. 13-2114 Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
4SMC-ISC-CNR, Department of Physics, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
Received 20 October 2009; Accepted 19 January 2010
Academic Editor: Dragan Mihailovic
Copyright © 2010 F. Carbone et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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