Taming molecular beams

Nature Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 595-602

  Van De Meerakker, Sebastiaan Y T ^a   Bethlem, Hendrick L ^a,b   Meijer, Gerard ^a  

^a FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULES;

CROSSED BEAMS; ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS; NEUTRAL MOLECULES; STATIC FIELDS; TIME VARYING; ULTRAHIGH RESOLUTION;

MOLECULAR BEAMS;

EID: 48949107385     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1031     Document Type: Review

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