Spectroscopy of lithium atoms and molecules on helium nanodroplets

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 117, Issue 46, 2013, Pages 11866-11873

  Lackner, Florian ^a   Poms, Johannes ^a   Krois, Günter ^a   Pototschnig, Johann V ^a   Ernst, Wolfgang E ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONALS; EXCITATION SPECTRUM; HELIUM NANODROPLETS; HIGH-SPIN MOLECULES; RESONANCE-ENHANCED MULTIPHOTON IONIZATION; SPECTROSCOPIC INVESTIGATIONS; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; TWO-PHOTON TRANSITIONS;

ATOMS; DIMERS; DROPS; EXCITED STATES; GROUND STATE; HELIUM; ISOTOPES; LITHIUM ALLOYS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULES; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHOTOIONIZATION;

LITHIUM;

EID: 84888622531     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: 15205215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp4030238     Document Type: Article

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