id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt df65v694x2h Charles F Vardeman II Computational Studies of Metallic Glasses and Nanoparticles 2009 .txt text/plain 532 25 42 Chapter 4 computationally explores experimental observations involving the transient response of metallic nanoparticles to the nearly instantaneous heating undergone when photons are absorbed during ultrafast laser excitation experiments. It was observed during the studies of metallic nanoparticles dissused on in Chapter 4 that the time scale for the cooling of these particle is very short (on the order of tens of picoseconds). cache/df65v694x2h.txt txt/df65v694x2h.txt