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The rotating-crystal method in femtosecond X-ray diffraction

B Freyer1, J Stingl, F Zamponi

  • 1Max-Born-Institut f¨ur Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, 12489 Berlin, Germany. bfreyer@mbi-berlin.de

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