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Ultraviolet catastrophe?

01 Jan 1998

New synchrotron radiation sources are coming on-line all over the world. But the only facilities that produce ultraviolet wavelengths are being closed down.

Synchrotron radiation is now used routinely in many areas of science. Many research groups, especia

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Phil Woodruff is professor of physics at the University of Warwick, UK.Alex Bradshaw is head of the surface-physics department at the Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck Gesellshaft, Berlin, Germany, and professor of physics at the Technical University of Berlin
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