The present status and development of strong-field nano-optics, an emerging field of
nonlinear optics, is discussed. A nonperturbative regime of light-matter interactions is …

Intense ultrashort light pulses comprising merely a few wave cycles became routinely
available by the turn of the millennium. The technologies underlying their production and …

Metal nanoparticles are excellent light absorbers. The absorption processes create highly
excited electron–hole pairs, and recently there has been interest in harnessing these hot …

The field of nanocatalysis (in which nanoparticles are used to catalyze reactions) has
undergone an exponential growth during the past decade. Two types of studies have been …

In the 60 years since the invention of the laser, the scientific community has developed
numerous fields of research based on these bright, coherent light sources, including the …

The field of nanoparticle research has drawn much attention in the past decade as a result of
the search for new materials. Size confinement results in new electronic and optical …

As a much-enriched supplement to the previous review paper entitled the “Effective work
functions for ionic and electronic emissions from mono-and polycrystalline surfaces”[Prog …

We used 600-femtosecond electron pulses to study the structural evolution of aluminum as it
underwent an ultrafast laser–induced solid-liquid phase transition. Real-time observations …

We show experimentally that the electron distribution of a laser-heated metal is a
nonthermal distribution on the time scale of the electron-phonon (e-ph) energy relaxation …

Electron-hole excitation and relaxation in the bulk, at interfaces, and surfaces of solid state
materials play a key role in a variety of physical and chemical phenomena that are important …