The past several decades have seen tremendous advances in metal nanoparticle research.
This field involves workers from many different areas, including materials scientists …

In this review we address the microscopic mechanisms that are involved in the
photogeneration processes of GHz–THz coherent acoustic phonons (CAP) induced by an …

The development, characterization, and technological exploitation of new materials,
particularly as components in 'smart'systems, are key challenges for chemistry and physics …

Electron-electron and electron-lattice interactions in noble metals are discussed in the light
of two-color femtosecond pump-probe measurements in silver films. The internal …

Irradiation of a metal with an ultrashort laser pulse leads to a disturbance of the free-electron
gas out of thermal equilibrium. We investigate theoretically the transient evolution of the …

We demonstrate experimentally picosecond all-optical control of a single plasmonic
nanoantenna embedded in indium tin oxide (ITO). We identify a picosecond response of the …

Excitonic mechanisms of defect formation and of sputtering from surfaces, induced as a
consequence of exciton relaxation, are effective in a limited class of wide-gap materials …

The advent of pump-probe spectroscopy techniques paved the way to the exploration of
ultrafast dynamics of electrons and phonons in crystalline solids. Following photo-absorption …

Ablation of Cu and Al targets has been performed with 170 fs laser pulses in the intensity
range of 10 12–10 14 W cm− 2. We compare the measured removal depth with 1D …

We review the application of ultrafast optical spectroscopy in the study of correlated electron
materials. The emphasis is on all-optical pump–probe and optical pump–far-infrared probe …