2002
Laser disintegration of Van der Waals clusters of carbon-containing molecules
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Phys. Rev. A , Volume 66 - Issue Article number: 13204 p. 1- 9
We report the production of highly charged ions, C5+ and O6+, obtained by Coulomb explosion of propane and, respectively, carbon dioxide clusters, exposed to laser pulses of (1–6)×1014 W/cm2 intensity. At such intensities, only triply charged ions were created via tunneling ionization of isolated molecules. Carbon ions with energies of 1.2 keV and oxygen ions with energies of 2 keV have been detected. Some information about the explosion dynamics could be extracted from numerical simulations.
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Toma, E. S., & Muller, H. G. (2002). Laser disintegration of Van der Waals clusters of carbon-containing molecules. Phys. Rev. A, 66(Article number: 13204), 1–9. |
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