Sentences with phrase «observed electrons tunneling»
In the new research, Corkum and his colleagues observed electrons tunneling out of hydrogen chloride (HCl) molecules subjected to laser pulses and traced the electrons back to their parent orbitals.
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Using tunneling ionization and ultrashort laser pulses, scientists have been able to observe the structure of a molecule and the changes that take place within billionths of a billionth of a second when it is excited by an electron impact.
This means that it is possible to observe what happened with an atom or a molecule in the time between the tunneling of an electron and its return to the ion with attosecond resolution.