Ultrafast infrared probes of electronic processes in materials

Ultrafast Infrared Vibrational Spectroscopy

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 239-267

  Asbury, John B ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

CONFORMATIONAL FLEXIBILITY; ELECTRONIC MATERIALS; ELECTRONIC TRANSITION; EMERGING MATERIALS; FORMATION AND EVOLUTIONS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURAL; SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES; VISIBLE AND NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

INFRARED DEVICES;

EID: 84880289562     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/b13972     Document Type: Chapter

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