Gold nanorods (NRs), pseudo-one-dimensional rod-shaped nanoparticles (NPs), have
become one of the burgeoning materials in the recent years due to their anisotropic shape …

Petahertz, or lightwave, electronics uses tailored optical waveforms to control charge
carriers in an electronic circuit at petahertz frequencies. This may enable faster processing …

Recently two emerging areas of research, attosecond and nanoscale physics, have started
to come together. Attosecond physics deals with phenomena occurring when ultrashort laser …

At high intensities, light–matter interactions are controlled by the electric field of the exciting
light. For instance, when an intense laser pulse interacts with an atomic gas, individual …

Attosecond science is based on electron dynamics driven by a strong optical electric field
and has evolved beyond its original scope in gas-phase atomic and molecular physics to …

The search for electron sources with simultaneous optimal spatial and temporal resolution
has become an area of intense activity for a wide variety of applications in the emerging …

Precise control of the topology of metal nanocrystals and appropriate modulation of the
metal–semiconductor heterostructure is an important way to understand the relationship …

Ultrafast, high-intensity light-matter interactions lead to optical-field-driven photocurrents
with an attosecond-level temporal response. These photocurrents can be used to detect the …

Probing nanooptical near-fields is a major challenge in plasmonics. Here, we demonstrate
an experimental method utilizing ultrafast photoemission from plasmonic nanostructures that …

Plasmonic nanoparticles in aqueous solution have long been known to fragment under
irradiation with intense ultrafast laser pulses, creating progeny particles with diameters of a …