Transient excitons at metal surfaces

Nature Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 505-509

  Cui, Xuefeng ^a   Wang, Cong ^a   Argondizzo, Adam ^a   Garrett Roe, Sean ^a   Gumhalter, Branko ^b   Petek, Hrvoje ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COULOMB INTERACTIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHOTOEMISSION; PHOTONS;

COULOMB POTENTIAL; ELECTRON HOLE PAIRS; EXCITONIC RESPONSE; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; MULTI-PHOTON PHOTOEMISSION; OPTICAL RESPONSE; OPTICS OF METALS; TRANSIENT REGIME;

EXCITONS;

EID: 84903708912     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2981     Document Type: Article

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