Monitoring Ultrafast Chemical Dynamics by Time-Domain X-ray Photo- and Auger-Electron Spectroscopy

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 138-145

  Gessner, Oliver ^a   Gühr, Markus ^b,c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

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EID: 84955317915     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: 15204898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.5b00361     Document Type: Article

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