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    Shape Control of Large Lightweight Mirrors with Dielectric Elastomer Actuation

    Space-based astronomy and remote sensing systems would benefit from extremely large-aperture mirrors that can permit greater-resolution images. To be cost-effective and practical, such optical systems must be ...

    R. D. Kornbluh, D. S. Flamm, H. Prahlad, K. M. Nashold, S. Chhokar in Smart Materials (2022)

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    Signatures of aestivation and migration in Sahelian malaria mosquito populations

    Malaria-carrying mosquitoes nearly disappear in the dry season, yet they reappear suddenly following the first rains; using surveys of mosquito densities, the authors characterize the population dynamics of th...

    A. Dao, A. S. Yaro, M. Diallo, S. Timbiné, D. L. Huestis, Y. Kassogué in Nature (2014)

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    Laser desorption studies using laser-induced fluorescence of large aromatic molecules

    Pulsed laser desorption of non-volatile organic dye molecules paraterphenyl and tetra-t-butyl-p-quinquephenyl (QUI) was studied using gas phase ultraviolet laser induced fluorescence, following heating of a st...

    G. P. Smith, B. Krancevic, D. L. Huestis, H. Oser in Applied Physics B (2009)

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    Analysis of Dissociative Recombination of Electrons with ArXe+ using ArXe* Calculations

    Electron scattering from a molecular ion is closely connected with the behavior of the highly excited electronic states of the corresponding neutral molecule. Both systems are governed by the same Hamiltonian....

    A. P. Hickman, D. L. Huestis, R. P. Saxon in Computational Methods for Electron—Molecul… (1995)

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    Calculations for Ar + Xe* and ArXe+ + e

    A number of fundamental atomic and molecular collision processes, including dissociative recombination (DR), are important in the kinetics of laser systems. For the past few years, we have been develo** theo...

    A. P. Hickman, D. L. Huestis, R. P. Saxon in Dissociative Recombination (1993)

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    Excitation of Molecular Hydrogen in Intense Laser Fields

    A high resolution photoelectron study of the response of molecular hydrogen to intense laser fields (>1013 W/cm2) at wavelengths between 310 and 330 nm shows that multiphoton ionization of the molecule competes w...

    H. Helm, M. J. Dyer, H. Bissantz in Coherence Phenomena in Atoms and Molecules… (1992)

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    Optical Data Storage and Image Processing in Rare Earth Ion Doped Crystals Using Stimulated Photon Echo

    Three experiments relevant for optical data storage and image processing using the stimulated photon echo technique in rare earth ion doped crystals are described. These are: an apparent laser excitation energ...

    S. Kröll, E. Y. Xu, R. Kachru, D. L. Huestis in Nonlinear Optics in Solids (1990)

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    Photoionization and dissociation of the triatomic hydrogen molecule

    Rotationless triatomic hydrogen molecules are synthesized in a fast molecular beam. Laser excitation of the molecules allows study of electric field induced ionization as well as autoionization of the ns, np, ...

    H. Helm, L. J. Lembo, P. C. Cosby, D. L. Huestis in Fundamentals of Laser Interactions II (1989)

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    Explosive Decomposition of Tetramethyldioxetane in the Solid Phase: Potential for a High Density Short Wavelength Chemical Laser

    3,3,4,4-Tetramethyl-1,2-dioxetane (TMD) is an energetic compound whose exothermic decomposition results in a high yield of electronically excited products according to reaction (1) (1) ...

    M. A. Tolbert, M. N. Spencer, D. L. Huestis, M. J. Rossi in Gas Flow and Chemical Lasers (1987)

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    Triatomic rare-gas-halide excimers

    D. L. Huestis, G. Marowsky, F. K. Tittel in Excimer Lasers (1984)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Excimer and energy transfer lasers

    D. C. Lorents, D. L. Huestis in Laser Spectroscopy (1975)