Ultrafast dynamics of highly excited trans-stilbene: A different twist

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 224-227

  Bao, Jie ^a   Weber, Peter M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clusters; Dynamics; Excited states

Indexed keywords

CARBON-CARBON BOND; CLUSTERS; COHERENT WAVES; ELECTRONIC SURFACE; FEMTOSECOND TIME-RESOLVED; HIGHLY EXCITED STATE; OSCILLATORY FREQUENCY; PHENYL GROUP; STRUCTURAL OSCILLATIONS; TIME CONSTANTS; TIME-DEPENDENT SPECTRUM; TRANS-STILBENE; TWO PHOTON IONIZATION; ULTRA-FAST DYNAMICS;

EXCITED STATES; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOIONIZATION; PHOTONS; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 77149153765     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz900147b     Document Type: Article

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