High-intensity lasers: Interactions with atoms, molecules and clusters

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 356, Issue 1736, 1998, Pages 297-315

  Hutchinson, M H R ^b   Ditmire, T ^a   Springate, E ^a   Tisch, J W G ^a   Shao, Y L ^a   Mason, M B ^a   Hay, N ^a   Marangos, J P ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Harwell Science and Innovation Campus   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clusters; Electron energy spectra; High intensity lasers; Ion energy spectra

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042885282     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1998.0166     Document Type: Article

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