A borane laser

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Cerdán, Luis ^a   Braborec, Jakub ^b,c   Garcia Moreno, Inmaculada ^a   Costela, Angel ^a   Londesborough, Michael G S ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA FÍSICA ROCASOLANO   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^c J E PURKINJE UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORANE DERIVATIVE; CYCLOHEXANE; HYDROCARBON; POLYSTYRENE; STILBENE DERIVATIVE;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON; LASER; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ORGANIC COMPOUND; SOLUBILITY;

ARTICLE; BORANE LASER; CHROMATOPHORE; DYE LASER; ENERGY; FLUORESCENCE; LASER; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LUMINESCENCE; MOLECULAR SIZE; NITROGEN LASER; PHOTODEGRADATION; PHOTODYNAMICS; PHOTON; PHOTOSTABILITY; PUMP ENERGY; QUANTUM YIELD; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 84923079682     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6958     Document Type: Article

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