Cold ablation driven by localized forces in alkali halides

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Hada, Masaki ^a,e,f   Zhang, Dongfang ^a   Pichugin, Kostyantyn ^a,e,g   Hirscht, Julian ^a   Kochman, Michał A ^a,b   Hayes, Stuart A ^a   Manz, Stephanie ^a   Gengler, Regis Y N ^a   Wann, Derek A ^b,e,h   Seki, Toshio ^c   Moriena, Gustavo ^a,d   Morrison, Carole A ^b   Matsuo, Jiro ^c   Sciaini, Germán ^a,e,g   Miller, R J Dwayne ^a,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF MATTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALI; ALKALI HALIDE; CESIUM; HALIDE; IODIDE; ION; POTASSIUM IODIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALKALINITY; CRATER; DIFFRACTION; HALIDE; LASER; PLASMA; REFLECTIVITY;

ARTICLE; COLD; COLD LASER ABLATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; EVOLUTION; EXCITATION; FEMTOSECOND ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; FEMTOSECOND LASER; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER SURGERY; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MELTING POINT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OPTICS; PLASMA;

EID: 84901006209     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4863     Document Type: Article

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