Ultrafast electronic relaxation in superheated bismuth

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 15, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Gamaly, E G ^a   Rode, A V ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLING CONSTANTS; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ELECTRON IONS; ELECTRON-PHONON ENERGY COUPLING; ELECTRON-PHONON RELAXATION TIME; ELECTRONIC EXCITATION; ELECTRONIC HEAT CAPACITY; ELECTRONIC RELAXATION; ENERGY COUPLINGS; FAST RELAXATION; FS-LASER; LATTICE FORM; LATTICE TEMPERATURES; NONTHERMAL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TEMPERATURE EQUILIBRATION; TRANSIENT PHASE; TRANSIENT STATE; ULTRA-FAST; ULTRAFAST LASER INTERACTIONS;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON TEMPERATURE; ELECTRON-PHONON INTERACTIONS; ELECTRONS; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXCITED STATES; EXPERIMENTS; MELTING; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

BISMUTH;

EID: 84873395324     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/1/013035     Document Type: Article

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