ATTOTRON

Attosecond Electron Processes in Solids

Coordinatore	LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN    more  Organization address address: GESCHWISTER SCHOLL PLATZ 1 city: MUENCHEN postcode: 80539 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Ferenc Cognome: Krausz Email: send email Telefono: 498933000000 Fax: 498933000000
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Germany [DE]
Totale costo	212˙513 €
EC contributo	212˙513 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IOF
Funding Scheme	MC-IOF
Anno di inizio	2012
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2012-10-01   -   2015-03-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN  Organization address address: GESCHWISTER SCHOLL PLATZ 1 city: MUENCHEN postcode: 80539 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Ferenc Cognome: Krausz Email: send email Telefono: 498933000000 Fax: 498933000000	DE (MUENCHEN)	coordinator	212˙513.55

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Electronic population transfer in solids constitutes the core of modern silicon based technology and is thus the cornerstone of machine intelligence and communication technology. Since the discovery of the semiconductor’s ability to rectify electric currents in 1874 the quest for a general understanding of the micro- and macroscopic behavior of electricity has driven efforts in basic science and industry. Solid materials and their physical properties are the result of a given structural and electronic configuration that both are dictated by the collective interplay between a number of individual particles. Experimentally, structure information is routinely achieved by a variety of diffraction technologies. In contrast to that, the temporal characteristics of electronic processes are subject to speculations since their evolution acts out in attoseconds (10^-18 s), the natural timescale of electronic mechanisms and way beyond the temporal resolution of established techniques. In the past decade attosecond physics had an impressive impact on basic research and demonstrated its potential to time resolve electron dynamics in a variety of target systems. So far, investigations have been carried out in atoms, molecules and on the surface of solid samples and the results that have been achieved owing to the unprecedented temporal resolution have triggered extensive theoretical efforts to extend the predictive value of the current models for light-matter interaction and intra-atomic electron dynamics. The proposed project will apply the tools of attosecond metrology developed in the past years to electronic processes inside solids thus opening a completely new field of science. The proposed efforts set out to investigate electron dynamics unfolding in the inner of bulk material with attosecond resolution and will link techniques and competencies developed at the forefront of ultrafast science to an inestimable number of questions with significant technological relevance.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

An EU-funded project is studying the temporal behaviour of electron dynamics in bulk materials. Using ultrafast pulses (attosecond) to probe electron energy bands represents initiation of a new field in condensed matter physics.