Attoseconds, the billionths of a billionth of a second, are the shortest flashes of light ever created. Now, scientists have figured out how to focus them. A team from the Max Born Institute (MBI) in ...
Copper blasted into a million-degree plasma strips away 22 electrons in a flash before atoms recover
When laser flashes hit matter, electrons are knocked off their orbits around the atomic nuclei. This can generate extremely hot plasmas composed of charged particles—ions and electrons. Researchers at ...
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