Light–matter interaction at atomic scales

R Gutzler, M Garg, CR Ast, K Kuhnke, K Kern - Nature Reviews Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Light–matter interaction drives many systems, such as optoelectronic devices like light-
emitting diodes and solar cells, biological structures like photosystem II and potential future …

Progress and prospects in optical ultrafast microscopy in the visible spectral region: Transient absorption and two-dimensional microscopy

N Gross, CT Kuhs, B Ostovar, WY Chiang… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Ultrafast optical microscopy, generally employed by incorporating ultrafast laser pulses into
microscopes, can provide spatially resolved mechanistic insight into scientific problems …

Real-space subfemtosecond imaging of quantum electronic coherences in molecules

M Garg, A Martin-Jimenez, M Pisarra, Y Luo, F Martín… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Tracking electron motion in molecules is the key to understanding and controlling chemical
transformations. Contemporary techniques in attosecond science are able to generate and …

Phase-resolved detection of ultrabroadband THz pulses inside a scanning tunneling microscope junction

M Müller, N Martín Sabanés, T Kampfrath… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Coupling phase-stable single-cycle terahertz (THz) pulses to scanning tunneling
microscope (STM) junctions enables spatiotemporal imaging with femtosecond temporal …

Application of advanced nanomaterials for kidney failure treatment and regeneration

A Eftekhari, S Maleki Dizaj, E Ahmadian, A Przekora… - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
The implementation of nanomedicine not only provides enhanced drug solubility and
reduced off-target adverse effects, but also offers novel theranostic approaches in clinical …

Nanoscale coherent phonon spectroscopy

S Liu, A Hammud, I Hamada, M Wolf, M Müller… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Coherent phonon spectroscopy can provide microscopic insight into ultrafast lattice
dynamics and its coupling to other degrees of freedom under nonequilibrium conditions …

Single-molecule photoelectron tunnelling spectroscopy

H Liu, L Chen, H Zhang, Z Yang, J Ye, P Zhou… - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Experimental mapping of transmission is essential for understanding and controlling charge
transport through molecular devices and materials. Here we developed a single-molecule …

Ultrafast photon-induced tunneling microscopy

M Garg, A Martin-Jimenez, Y Luo, K Kern - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Unification of the techniques of ultrafast science and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM)
has the potential of tracking electronic motion in molecules simultaneously in real space and …

Imaging surfaces at the space–time limit: New perspectives of time-resolved scanning tunneling microscopy for ultrafast surface science

M Müller - Progress in Surface Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Many fundamental processes in nature occur on ultrashort time scales within picoseconds to
attoseconds, and on intrinsic length scales from nanometers to picometers. The structure of …

Femtosecond thermal and nonthermal hot electron tunneling inside a photoexcited tunnel junction

N Martín Sabanés, F Krecinic, T Kumagai, F Schulz… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Efficient operation of electronic nanodevices at ultrafast speeds requires understanding and
control of the currents generated by femtosecond bursts of light. Ultrafast laser-induced …