Tomographic imaging of molecular orbitals

Nature

Volumn 432, Issue 7019, 2004, Pages 867-871

  Itatani, J ^a,b   Lavesque, J ^a,c   Zeidler, D ^a   Niikura, Hiromichi ^a,d   Pepin H ^c   Kieffer, J C ^c   Corkum, P B ^a   Villeneuve, D M ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c INRS EMT   (Canada)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; ELECTRONS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LASER PULSES; MOLECULES;

ATTOSECOND DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL CONSTRUCTS; TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION; WAVEFUNCTIONS;

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

NITROGEN DERIVATIVE;

PHYSICS;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVEFORM;

EID: 11144278603     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03183     Document Type: Article

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