An upcoming interview with Ji-Xin Cheng, a Theodore Moustakas Distinguished Professor in Photonics and Optoelectronics at Boston University, will highlight his ongoing work in coherent Raman scattering microscopy.
|Articles|December 1, 2016
- Spectroscopy-12-01-2016
- Volume 31
- Issue 12
International Centre for Diffraction Data
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