Time- and space-resolved dynamics of melting, ablation, and solidification phenomena induced by femtosecond laser pulses in germanium

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 13, 2006, Pages

  Bonse, Jörn ^a,b   Bachelier, Guillaume ^a,c   Siegel, Jan ^a   Solis, Javier ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ÓPTICA   (Spain)

^b MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c University of Lyon   (France)

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EID: 33749538421     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.74.134106     Document Type: Article

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