Fabrication of solid CH-CD multilayer microspheres for inertial confinement fusion

Meifang Liu; Xing Ai; Yiyang Liu; Qiang Chen; Shuai Zhang; Zhibing He; Yawen Huang; Qiang Yin

doi:10.1063/5.0033103

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