A simple explanation of light emission in sonoluminescence

Nature

Volumn 398, Issue 6726, 1999, Pages 402-405

  Hilgenfeldt, Sascha ^a   Grossmann, Siegfried ^b   Lohse, Detlef ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; XENON;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); LUMINESCENCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0033119481     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/18842     Document Type: Article

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