Experimental evidence of above-threshold photoemission in solids

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Banfi, Francesco ^a,b   Giannetti, Claudio ^a   Ferrini, Gabriele ^a   Galimberti, Gianluca ^a   Pagliara, Stefania ^a   Fausti, Daniele ^a   Parmigiani, Fulvio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABOVE-THRESHOLD IONIZATION (ATI); ABOVE-THRESHOLD PHOTOEMISSION (ATP); PHOTON ENERGY; SPACE-CHARGE EFFECTS;

ELECTRONS; IONIZATION; LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHOTONS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SOLIDS;

PHOTOEMISSION;

EID: 18144431375     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.037601     Document Type: Article

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