Progress on table-top isolated attosecond light sources

K Midorikawa - Nature Photonics, 2022 - nature.com
Research on isolated attosecond pulses (IAPs) based on high-order harmonic generation
changed substantially around 2010. Before then, the Ti: sapphire laser was the de facto …

Spin-vibronic mechanism for intersystem crossing

TJ Penfold, E Gindensperger, C Daniel… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Intersystem crossing (ISC), formally forbidden within nonrelativistic quantum theory, is the
mechanism by which a molecule changes its spin state. It plays an important role in the …

Charge transfer of carbon nanomaterials for efficient metal‐free electrocatalysis

R Paul, Q Zhai, AK Roy, L Dai - Interdisciplinary Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, carbon‐based metal‐free electrocatalysts (C‐MFECs) have drawn considerable
research attention because of their attractive physicochemical characteristics, cost …

Attosecond science based on high harmonic generation from gases and solids

J Li, J Lu, A Chew, S Han, J Li, Y Wu, H Wang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Recent progress in high power ultrafast short-wave and mid-wave infrared lasers has
enabled gas-phase high harmonic generation (HHG) in the water window and beyond, as …

Streaking of 43-attosecond soft-X-ray pulses generated by a passively CEP-stable mid-infrared driver

T Gaumnitz, A Jain, Y Pertot, M Huppert, I Jordan… - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Attosecond metrology has so far largely remained limited to titanium: sapphire lasers
combined with an active stabilization of the carrier-envelope phase (CEP). These sources …

53-attosecond X-ray pulses reach the carbon K-edge

J Li, X Ren, Y Yin, K Zhao, A Chew, Y Cheng… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The motion of electrons in the microcosm occurs on a time scale set by the atomic unit of
time—24 attoseconds. Attosecond pulses at photon energies corresponding to the …

Attosecond spectroscopy for the investigation of ultrafast dynamics in atomic, molecular and solid-state physics

R Borrego-Varillas, M Lucchini… - Reports on Progress in …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Since the first demonstration of the generation of attosecond pulses (1 as= 10− 18 s) in the
extreme-ultraviolet spectral region, several measurement techniques have been introduced …

Sub-7-femtosecond conical-intersection dynamics probed at the carbon K-edge

KS Zinchenko, F Ardana-Lamas, I Seidu, SP Neville… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Conical intersections allow electronically excited molecules to return to their electronic
ground state. Here, we observe the fastest electronic relaxation dynamics measured to date …

Roadmap of ultrafast x-ray atomic and molecular physics

L Young, K Ueda, M Gühr… - Journal of Physics B …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) and table-top sources of x-rays based upon high
harmonic generation (HHG) have revolutionized the field of ultrafast x-ray atomic and …

Femtosecond proton transfer in urea solutions probed by X-ray spectroscopy

Z Yin, YP Chang, T Balčiūnas, Y Shakya, A Djorović… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Proton transfer is one of the most fundamental events in aqueous-phase chemistry and an
emblematic case of coupled ultrafast electronic and structural dynamics,. Disentangling …