Site and energy-selective slow-electron production through intermolecular coulombic decay

Nature

Volumn 505, Issue 7485, 2014, Pages 661-663

  Gokhberg, Kirill ^a   Kolorenč, Přemysl ^b   Kuleff, Alexander I ^a   Cederbaum, Lorenz S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

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EID: 84895066359     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12936     Document Type: Article

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