Probing the tunnelling site of electrons in strong field enhanced ionization of molecules

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Wu, J ^a,b   Meckel, M ^a   Schmidt, L Ph H ^a   Kunitski, M ^a   Voss, S ^a   Sann, H ^a   Kim, H ^a   Jahnke, T ^a   Czasch, A ^a   Dorner R ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; XENON;

ELECTRON; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRAGMENTATION; IONIZATION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MOMENTUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION;

ARTICLE; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY; IONIZATION; LASER; MASS; MODEL; MOTION;

EID: 84869390995     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2130     Document Type: Article

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