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Nature Physics

Probing electronic binding potentials with attosecond photoelectron wavepackets

Dietrich Kiesewetter, R. R. Jones, A. Camper, Stephen B. Schoun, Pierre Agostini, Louis F. DiMauro

Published Oct 2, 2017• 37 citations
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10.1038/nphys4279

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