Physicists steer electrons with laser pulses: Method could be used to create custom-made chemical compounds
Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 18:07
in Physics & Chemistry
Theoretical physicist Uwe Thumm and his colleagues Feng He and Andreas Becker not only work with some of the smallest molecules in the universe, but they now have found a way to control the motion of the molecules' building blocks, electrons and nuclei.
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