Audio / Video

Science at the Timescale of the Electron

  • 01:10:54

Description

Ever since the invention of the laser over 50 years ago, scientists have been striving to create an x-ray version of the laser. Advances in extreme nonlinear optics now make it possible to efficiently upshift tabletop femtosecond lasers into the ultraviolet (EUV) and soft X-ray regions of the spectrum, to wavelengths as short as 8 Å. This unique high harmonic (HHG) light source is ideally suited for host applications in imaging and in understanding how advanced materials function. A host of applications in nanoscience and nanotechnology have now been demonstrated, including full-field microscopes with sub-wavelength spatial resolution in the soft X-ray region for the first time, quantifying how nanoscale energy flow differs from bulk, measuring how fast a material can change its electronic or magnetic state, probing how spin currents can control and enhance magnetization in ultra thin films, and visualizing the dynamic band structure of material and electron-electron interactions on sub-femtosecond timescales.

Details

Title

Science at the Timescale of the Electron

Creator

University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Physics.

Published

Berkeley, CA, University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Physics, November 6, 2017

Full Collection Name

Physics Colloquia

Type

Video

Format

Lecture.

Extent

1 streaming video file

Other Physical Details

digital, sd., col.

Archive

Physics Library

Note

Recorded at a colloquium held on November 6, 2017, sponsored by the Dept. of Physics, University of California, Berkeley.

originally produced as an .mts file in 2017

Speakers: Margaret Murnane.

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Collection

Physics Colloquia

Tracks

colloquia/11-6-17Murnane.mp4 01:10:54

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