Ion acceleration driven by superintense laser pulses is attracting an impressive and steadily
increasing effort. Motivations can be found in the applicative potential and in the perspective …

In the past 20 years, we have reached a broad understanding of many light-driven
phenomena in nanoscale systems. The temporal dynamics of the excited states are instead …

Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) naturally have the capability of high voltage output to
breakdown gas easily. Here we present a concept of triboelectric microplasma by integrating …

For many years, laser-driven ion acceleration, mainly proton acceleration, has been
proposed and a number of proof-of-principle experiments have been carried out with lasers …

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) describes the quantum dynamics of
interacting electronic many-body systems formally exactly and in a practical and efficient …

The advent of ultraintense laser pulses generated by the technique of chirped pulse
amplification (CPA) along with the development of high-fluence laser materials has opened …

An intense collimated beam of high-energy protons is emitted normal to the rear surface of
thin solid targets irradiated at 1 PW power and peak intensity 3× 10 20 W cm− 2. Up to 48 J …

This book represents the first comprehensive treatment of the subject, covering the
theoretical principles, present experimental status and important applications of short-pulse …

A collimated beam of fast protons, with energies as high as 1.5 MeV and total number of≳ 10
9, confined in a cone angle of 40±10 is observed when a high-intensity high-contrast …

Laser excitation of nanometer-sized atomic and molecular clusters offers various
opportunities to explore and control ultrafast many-particle dynamics. Whereas weak laser …