Kirk Flippo

7.0k citations
125 papers · 4.0k · 2 hit papers · h-index 30

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Co-authors
B. M. Hegelich (22 shared papers)J. C. Fernández (18 shared papers)D. Umstadter (8 shared papers)A. Maksimchuk (7 shared papers)V. Yu. Bychenkov (5 shared papers)B. J. Albright (15 shared papers)S. Gu (1 shared paper)J. Schreiber (12 shared papers)
Journals
Physics of Plasmas (26 papers)Review of Scientific Instruments (20 papers)Physical Review Letters (6 papers)High Energy Density Physics (6 papers)Laser and Particle Beams (5 papers)
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United StatesGermanyFrance

In The Last Decade

Kirk Flippo

115 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Kirk Flippo's Hit Papers

Laser acceleration of quasi-monoenergetic MeV ion beams 2006 · 536 citations
5360+8+17Years since publication100200300400500
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

  • it has ≥500 total citations;
  • it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
  • it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.
  1. 2006 Nature
  2. 2000 Physical Review Letters

Peers

Kirk Flippo
Comparison fields: 5 of 58
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics 3.7k
  • Mechanics of Materials 2.4k
  • Geophysics 1.3k
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 2.0k
  • Radiation 399
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K. A. Tanaka Japan
V. Yu. Bychenkov Russia
S. Letzring United States
P. K. Patel United States
R. S. Craxton United States
B. A. Hammel United States
J. D. Kilkenny United States
Y. Sentoku Japan
J. C. Fernández United States
O. Willi United Kingdom
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Forward Ion Acceleration in Thin Films Driven by a High-Intensity Laser
Physical Review Letters ·A. Maksimchuk, S. Gu, Kirk Flippo, D. Umstadter, V. Yu. Bychenkov
Hit paper breakdown →		2000570
2
Laser acceleration of quasi-monoenergetic MeV ion beams
Nature ·B. M. Hegelich, B. J. Albright, J. A. Cobble, Kirk Flippo, S. Letzring, Mark Paffett, H. Rühl, J. Schreiber, R. Schulze, J. C. Fernández
Hit paper breakdown →		2006536
3
Monoenergetic and GeV ion acceleration from the laser breakout afterburner using ultrathin targets
Physics of Plasmas ·L. Yin, B. J. Albright, B. M. Hegelich, K. J. Bowers, Kirk Flippo, T. J. T. Kwan, J. C. Fernández
2007267
4
Enhanced Laser-Driven Ion Acceleration in the Relativistic Transparency Regime
Physical Review Letters ·A. Henig, D. Kiefer, K. Markey, D. C. Gautier, Kirk Flippo, S. Letzring, R. P. Johnson, T. Shimada, L. Yin, B. J. Albright, K. J. Bowers, J. C. Fernández, S. G. Rykovanov, Hongling Wu, M. Zepf, D. Jung, V.Kh. Liechtenstein, J. Schreiber, D. Habs, B. M. Hegelich
2009181
5
Radiochromic film imaging spectroscopy of laser-accelerated proton beams
Review of Scientific Instruments ·F. Nürnberg, Marius Schollmeier, E. Brambrink, A. Blažević, D. C. Carroll, Kirk Flippo, D. C. Gautier, Matthias Geißel, K. Harres, B. M. Hegelich, O. Lundh, K. Markey, P. McKenna, D. Neely, J. Schreiber, M. Roth
2009167
6
Laser-triggered ion acceleration and table top isotope production
Applied Physics Letters ·Kae Nemoto, A. Maksimchuk, S. Banerjee, Kirk Flippo, G. Mourou, D. Umstadter, V. Yu. Bychenkov
2001155
7
High-energy ion generation in interaction. of short laser pulse with high-density plasma
Applied Physics B ·Y. Sentoku, V. Yu. Bychenkov, Kirk Flippo, A. Maksimchuk, K. Mima, G. Mourou, Z. M. Sheng, D. Umstadter
2002126
8
Increased laser-accelerated proton energies via direct laser-light-pressure acceleration of electrons in microcone targets
Physics of Plasmas ·Ségolène Gaillard, T. Kluge, Kirk Flippo, Michael Bußmann, B. Gall, T. Lockard, Matthias Geißel, Dustin Offermann, Marius Schollmeier, Y. Sentoku, T. E. Cowan
2011125
9
Progress and prospects of ion-driven fast ignition
Nuclear Fusion ·J. C. Fernández, J. J. Honrubia, B. J. Albright, Kirk Flippo, D. C. Gautier, B. M. Hegelich, Mark Schmitt, M. Temporal, L. Yin
2009102
10
Focusing of short-pulse high-intensity laser-accelerated proton beams
Nature Physics ·T. Bartal, Mark Foord, C. Bellei, M. H. Key, Kirk Flippo, Sandrine Gaillard, Dustin Offermann, P. K. Patel, L. C. Jarrott, D. P. Higginson, M. Roth, Anke Otten, D. Kraus, R. B. Stephens, H. S. McLean, E. Giraldez, (unknown), D. C. Gautier, F. N. Beg
201196
11
Relativistic Buneman instability in the laser breakout afterburner
Physics of Plasmas ·B. J. Albright, L. Yin, K. J. Bowers, B. M. Hegelich, Kirk Flippo, T. J. T. Kwan, J. C. Fernández
200791
12
Development and calibration of a Thomson parabola with microchannel plate for the detection of laser-accelerated MeV ions
Review of Scientific Instruments ·K. Harres, Marius Schollmeier, E. Brambrink, P. Audebert, A. Blažević, Kirk Flippo, D. C. Gautier, Matthias Geißel, B. M. Hegelich, F. Nürnberg, J. Schreiber, H. D. Wahl, M. Roth
200879
13
High-temporal contrast using low-gain optical parametric amplification
Optics Letters ·Rahul Shah, Randall P. Johnson, T. Shimada, Kirk Flippo, J. C. Fernández, B. M. Hegelich
200972
14
Laser-driven ion accelerators: Spectral control, monoenergetic ions and new acceleration mechanisms
Laser and Particle Beams ·Kirk Flippo, B. M. Hegelich, B. J. Albright, L. Yin, D. C. Gautier, S. Letzring, Marius Schollmeier, J. Schreiber, R. Schulze, J. C. Fernández
200769
15
Laser-ablation treatment of short-pulse laser targets: Toward an experimental program on energetic-ion interactions with dense plasmas
Laser and Particle Beams ·J. C. Fernández, B. M. Hegelich, J. A. Cobble, Kirk Flippo, S. Letzring, Randall P. Johnson, D. C. Gautier, T. Shimada, G. A. Kyrala, Yongqiang Wang, Chris Wetteland, J. Schreiber
200558
16
A platform for studying the Rayleigh–Taylor and Richtmyer–Meshkov instabilities in a planar geometry at high energy density at the National Ignition Facility
Physics of Plasmas ·S. R. Nagel, Kumar Raman, C. M. Huntington, S. A. MacLaren, P. Wang, M. A. Barrios, Theodore F. Baumann, Jason D. Bender, L. R. Benedetti, Danielle Doane, S. Felker, P. Fitzsimmons, Kirk Flippo, J. P. Holder, D. N. Kaczala, T. S. Perry, R. Seugling, L. D. Savage, Ye Zhou
201751
17
High proton energies from cone targets: electron acceleration mechanisms
New Journal of Physics ·T. Kluge, Sandrine Gaillard, Kirk Flippo, Trevor Burris-Mog, W. Enghardt, B. Gall, Matthias Geißel, Anton Helm, Stephan Kraft, T. Lockard, Josefine Metzkes-Ng, Dustin Offermann, Marius Schollmeier, U. Schramm, Karl Zeil, Michael Bußmann, T. E. Cowan
201249
18
Demonstration of Scale-Invariant Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Growth in Laser-Driven Cylindrical Implosion Experiments
Physical Review Letters ·Joshua Sauppe, S. Palaniyappan, Benjamin Tobias, J. L. Kline, Kirk Flippo, O. L. Landen, D. Shvarts, S. H. Batha, Paul A. Bradley, Eric Loomis, Nomita Vazirani, Codie Fiedler Kawaguchi, L. Kot, D. W. Schmidt, Thomas Day, A. B. Zylstra, Elad Malka
202049
19
Enhanced Isochoric Heating from Fast Electrons Produced by High-Contrast, Relativistic-Intensity Laser Pulses
Physical Review Letters ·F. Pérez, L. Gremillet, (unknown), S. D. Baton, P. Audebert, M. Chahid, C. Rousseaux, M. Drouin, E. Lefebvre, T. Vinci, J. Rassuchine, T. E. Cowan, Sandrine Gaillard, Kirk Flippo, R. Shepherd
201041
20
The Shock/Shear platform for planar radiation-hydrodynamics experiments on the National Ignition Facility
Physics of Plasmas ·F. W. Doss, J. L. Kline, Kirk Flippo, T. S. Perry, B. G. DeVolder, I. L. Tregillis, Eric Loomis, Elizabeth Merritt, T. J. Murphy, L. Welser-Sherrill, J. R. Fincke
201538

About Kirk Flippo

Kirk Flippo is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Mechanics of Materials, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Geophysics and Computational Mechanics, having authored 125 papers that have together received 4.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (113 papers), Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (79 papers), Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (44 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (33 papers), Atomic and Molecular Physics (10 papers), Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (10 papers), Magnetic confinement fusion research (10 papers) and Nuclear Physics and Applications (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (3.7k citations), Mechanics of Materials (2.4k citations), Geophysics (1.3k citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (2.0k citations) and Radiation (399 citations). Kirk Flippo has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Frequent co-authors include B. M. Hegelich, J. C. Fernández, D. Umstadter, A. Maksimchuk, V. Yu. Bychenkov, B. J. Albright, S. Gu, J. Schreiber, S. Letzring and L. Yin. Their work appears in journals such as Physics of Plasmas, Review of Scientific Instruments, Physical Review Letters, High Energy Density Physics and Laser and Particle Beams.

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