Issue
Eur. Phys. J. Appl. Phys.
Volume 100, 2025
Special Issue on ‘Imaging, Diffraction, and Spectroscopy on the micro/nanoscale (EMC 2024)’, edited by Jakob Birkedal Wagner and Randi Holmestad
Article Number 28
Number of page(s) 7
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap/2025026
Published online 17 October 2025
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