Physics of laser-driven tin plasma sources of EUV radiation for nanolithography

OO Versolato - Plasma Sources Science and Technology, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Laser-produced transient tin plasmas are the sources of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light at
13.5 nm wavelength for next-generation nanolithography, enabling the continued …

The X-ray counterpart to the gravitational-wave event GW170817

E Troja, L Piro, H Van Eerten, RT Wollaeger, M Im… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
A long-standing paradigm in astrophysics is that collisions—or mergers—of two neutron
stars form highly relativistic and collimated outflows (jets) that power γ-ray bursts of short …

Swift and NuSTAR observations of GW170817: Detection of a blue kilonova

PA Evans, SB Cenko, JA Kennea, SWK Emery… - Science, 2017 - science.org
With the first direct detection of merging black holes in 2015, the era of gravitational wave
(GW) astrophysics began. A complete picture of compact object mergers, however, requires …

The emergence of a lanthanide-rich kilonova following the merger of two neutron stars

NR Tanvir, AJ Levan… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the discovery and monitoring of the near-infrared counterpart (AT2017gfo) of a
binary neutron-star merger event detected as a gravitational wave source by Advanced …

Full transport model of GW170817-like disk produces a blue kilonova

JM Miller, BR Ryan, JC Dolence, A Burrows, CJ Fontes… - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
The 2017 detection of the inspiral and merger of two neutron stars in gravitational waves
and gamma rays was accompanied by a quickly reddening transient. Such a transient was …

Impact of ejecta morphology and composition on the electromagnetic signatures of neutron star mergers

RT Wollaeger, O Korobkin, CJ Fontes… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The electromagnetic transients accompanying compact binary mergers (γ-ray bursts,
afterglows and 'macronovae') are crucial to pinpoint the sky location of gravitational wave …

A new generation of Los Alamos opacity tables

J Colgan, DP Kilcrease, NH Magee… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new, publicly available set of Los Alamos OPLIB opacity tables for the
elements hydrogen through zinc. Our tables are computed using the Los Alamos ATOMIC …

Introduction to spectral line shape theory

TA Gomez, T Nagayama, PB Cho… - Journal of Physics B …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Spectral line-shape models are an important part of understanding high-energy-density
(HED) plasmas. Models are needed for calculating opacity of materials and can serve as …

Prominent radiative contributions from multiply-excited states in laser-produced tin plasma for nanolithography

F Torretti, J Sheil, R Schupp, MM Basko… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography is currently entering high-volume manufacturing to
enable the continued miniaturization of semiconductor devices. The required EUV light, at …

A line-binned treatment of opacities for the spectra and light curves from neutron star mergers

CJ Fontes, CL Fryer, AL Hungerford… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The electromagnetic observations of GW170817 were able to dramatically increase our
understanding of neutron star mergers beyond what we learned from gravitational waves …