Van der Waals - Zeeman transitions of metastable neon atoms passing through a micro-slit copper grating

Europhysics Letters

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 36-42

  Karam, J C ^a   Grucker, J ^a   Boustimi, M ^a   Perales, F ^a   Bocvarski, V ^a,b   Baudon, J ^a   Vassilev, G ^a   Robert, J ^a   Ducloy, M ^a  

^a Centrale de Proximité en Nanotechnologies de Paris Nord   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

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EID: 33645662907     PISSN: 02955075     EISSN: 12864854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1209/epl/i2005-10514-3     Document Type: Article

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