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Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 175504 (2002) [4 pages]

Holographic Imaging of Atoms Using Thermal Neutrons

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L. Cser and Gy. Török
Central Research Institute for Physics, Budapest P.O.B. 49, H-1525, Hungary

G. Krexner
Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, A-1090 Vienna, Austria

I. Sharkov
St. Petersburg State University, Institute of Physics, Chair of Optics and Spectroscopy, Ulyanovskaja Street 1, 198904 St. Petersburg, Russia

B. Faragó
Institut Laue-Langevin, 6 rue Jules Horowitz, BP 156-38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France

Received 23 July 2002; published 8 October 2002

In a recent paper [ L. Cser, G. Krexner and Gy. Török Europhys. Lett. 54 747 (2001)] the use of thermal neutrons with wavelengths close to interatomic distances in condensed matter was proposed to obtain holographic images on an atomic scale. Two experimental methods were considered which either put the radiation source inside and the detector outside the object or vice versa. The second approach, called the inside-detector concept, requires strongly neutron-absorbing isotopes acting as pointlike detectors in the sample. In the present work, we demonstrate the feasibility of this technique by recording a holographic image of a lead nuclei in a Pb(Cd) single crystal.

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.175504
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.175504
PACS:
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