Recent Applications of X Rays in Condensed Matter Physics

1 November 1995

journal article
research article
Published by AIP Publishing in Physics Today

Vol. 48 (11) , 34-40
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881457

Abstract

Since their discovery by Wilhelm Conard Röntgen, X rays have played a significant role in our lives: they make the unseen in our bodies visible; they enhance our security in air travel; they make possible nondestructive testing of a wide variety of materials. And through x‐ray diffraction and spectroscopy they make it possible to probe the order of matter at the atomic level.

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