Nanometer-scale ablation with a table-top soft x-ray laser.

@article{Vaschenko2006NanometerscaleAW,
  title={Nanometer-scale ablation with a table-top soft x-ray laser.},
  author={Georgiy O. Vaschenko and A Garcia Etxarri and Carmen S. Menoni and Jorge J. Rocca and Oscar E. Hemberg and Scott H. Bloom and Weilun Chao and Erik Hyde Anderson and D. Attwood and Y Lu and Bruce A. Parkinson},
  journal={Optics letters},
  year={2006},
  volume={31 24},
  pages={
          3615-7
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:5904455}
}
The results demonstrate the feasibility of using focused soft x-ray laser beams for the direct nanoscale patterning of materials and the development of new nanoprobes.
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