Fast electronic transport and coulomb explosion in materials irradiated with ultrashort laser pulses

Springer Series in Optical Sciences

Volumn 129, Issue , 2006, Pages 17-36

  Bulgakova, Nadezhda M ^a   Stoian, Razvan ^b   Rosenfeld, Arkadi ^c   Hertel, Ingolf V ^c,d   Campbell, Eleanor E ^e  

^a KUTATELADZE INSTITUTE OF THERMOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^c MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

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EID: 33846377595     PISSN: 03424111     EISSN: 15561534     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-30453-3_2     Document Type: Article

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