Turning solid aluminium transparent by intense soft X-ray photoionization

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 693-696

  Nagler, Bob ^a   Zastrau, Ulf ^b   Fäustlin, Roland R ^c   Vinko, Sam M ^a   Whitcher, Thomas ^a   Nelson, A J ^d   Sobierajski, Ryszard ^e,f   Krzywinski, Jacek ^g   Chalupsky, Jaromir ^h   Abreu, Elsa ⁱ   Bajt, Saša ^c   Bornath, Thomas ^j   Burian, Tomas ^h   Chapman, Henry ^c,k   Cihelka, Jaroslav ^h   Döppner, Tilo ^d   Düsterer, Stefan ^c   Dzelzainis, Thomas ^l   Fajardo, Marta ⁱ   Förster, Eckhart ^b   Fortmann, Carsten ^j   Galtier, Eric ^m   Glenzer, Siegfried H ^d   Göde, Sebastian ^j   Gregori, Gianluca ^a   Hajkova, Vera ^h   Heimann, Phil ⁿ   Juha, Libor ^h   Jurek, Marek ^e   Khattak, Fida Y ^o   Khorsand, Ali Reza ^f   Klinger, Dorota ^e   Kozlova, Michaela ⁱ   Laarmann, Tim ^c   Lee, Hae Ja ^p   Lee, Richard W ^d   Meiwes Broer, Karl Heinz ^j   Mercere, Pascal ^q   Murphy, William J ^a   Przystawik, Andreas ^j   Redmer, Ronald ^j   Reinholz, Heidi ^j   Riley, David ^c   Röpke, Gerd ^j   Rosmej, Frank ^k   Saksl, Karel ^r   Schott, Romain ^k   Thiele, Robert ^j   Tiggesbäumker, Josef ^j   Toleikis, Sven ^c   Tschentscher, Thomas ^s   Uschmann, Ingo ^b   Vollmer, Hubert J ^d   Wark, Justin S ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c DESY   (Germany)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

^f FOM INSTITUTE FOR PLASMA PHYSICS RIJNHUIZEN   (Netherlands)

^g SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^h INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

ⁱ INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^l QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^m SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

ⁿ LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^o KOHAT UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^p UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^q SYNCHROTRON SOLEIL   (France)

^r INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Slovakia)

^s EUROPEAN XFEL GMBH   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ASTROPHYSICS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; WAVE PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

ALUMINIUM ATOMS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC POSITION; HIGH INTENSITY; INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; PHOTON ENERGY; PLANETARY SCIENCE; SATURABLE ABSORPTION; WARM DENSE MATTERS;

X RAYS;

EID: 70249132115     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1341     Document Type: Article

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