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International Journal of Spectroscopy
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 578374, 5 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/578374
Research Article

Isotope Shifts in High Lying Levels of Dy I and Er I by High-Resolution UV Laser Spectroscopy

Wei-Guo Jin, Hiroaki Ono, and Tatsuya Minowa

Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Toho University, Miyama 2-2-1, Funabashi, Chiba 274-8510, Japan

Received 15 September 2011; Accepted 6 October 2011

Academic Editor: Kam-Sing Wong

Copyright © 2011 Wei-Guo Jin et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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