ULTRAFAST DYNAMICS IN MOLECULES, NANOSTRUCTURES & INTERFACES

by Guglielmo Lanzani (Editor), Gagik G Gurzadyan (Editor), Cesare Soci (Editor), T C Sum (Editor)

Overview

Primary events in natural systems or devices occur on extremely short time scales, and yet determine in many cases the final performance or output. For this reason research in ultrafast science is of primary importance and impact in both fundamental research as well as its applications. This book reviews the advances in the field, addressing timely and open questions such as the role of quantum coherence in biology, the role of excess energy in electron injection at photovoltaic interfaces or the dynamics in quantum confined structures (e.g. multi carrier generation). The approach is that of a monograph, with a broad tutorial introduction and an overview of the recent results. This volume includes selected lectures presented at Symposium on Ultrafast Dynamics of the 7th International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789814556934
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	01/22/2014
Series:	SERIES IN OPTICS AND PHOTONICS , #8
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	11 MB
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Table of Contents

Fundamentals of Light-Matter Interaction: Ultrafast Dynamics in Correlated Electron Materials (Antoinette Taylor, Rohit Prasankumar, George Rodriguez, Dmitry Yarotski, Quanxi Jia and Stuart Trugman); Ultrafast Charge and Energy Transfer in Semiconductor-Metal Hybrid Nanoparticles (Paolo Maioli, D Mongin, V Juvé, A Crut, N Del Fatti and F Vallée); Studies of Ultrafast Quantum Dynamics by Femtosedond to Attosecond XUV Absorption Spectroscopy (Zhi-Heng Loh); Biomaterials: Real-time Wavepacket Dynamics Through a Conical Intersection: The Primary Event of Vision (Giulio Cerullo); Ultrafast Transient Absorption and Polarized Light Spectroscopy Characterizing the Exciton Interactions in Chlorosomes (Alfred Holzwarth1, Marc Müller1, Petar Lambrev, Yulia Miloslavina, Krysztof Pawlak and Gyözö Garab); Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy of Excitons in Photosynthetic Complexes with Classical and Quantum Light (Shaul Mukamel, Frank Schlawin, Konstantin Dorfman and Benjamin Fingerhut); Switching Ability and Adaptation to Different External Conditions of Photosynthetic Proteins (Leonas Valkunas and Jevgenij Chmeliov); Ultrafast 2d and 3d Optical Spectroscopy — Its Implementation and Applications (Howe-Siang Tan); Organic Semiconductors: Simultaneous Measurement of Electronic and Vibrational Dynamics in a Polyacetylene Derivative Studied by a Few-cycle Pulse Laser (Takayoshi Kobayashi, Tsugumasa Iiyama, Kotaro Okamura and Toshio Masuda); Charge Generation and Recombination in Low-bandgap Polymer : Fullerene Photovoltaic Blends (Frederic Laquai, Ian Howard, Clare Dyer-Smith, Fabian Etzold and Julian Ochsmann); Charge Transfer Dynamics in Assemblies of Functional Molecules (Michael Zharnikov); Morphology of Bulk Heterojunction Revealed by Ultrafast Excitons (Maxim Pshenichnikov, Almis Serbenta, Vlad Pavelyev, Kees Hummelen and Paul van Loosdrecht1); Mechanisms of Charge Photogeneration in Polymer/fullerene Blends: Driving Force and Effect of Electric Field (Jianping Zhang); Time-Resolved Energy Transfer in Semiconducting Polymer Heterostructures (Caio Rimoli and Paulo Miranda); Charge Carrier Generation and Transport in Merocianine: Fullerene Blends for Solar Cells (Vidmantas Gulbinas); Inorganic Semiconductors and Nanostructures: Making Most of the Absorbed Photon: New Insights Into Carrier Multiplication in Semiconductor Nanostructures (Victor I Klimov); Mapping Carrier Diffusion in Single Silicon Core-Shell Nanowires with Ultrafast Optical Microscopy (Minah Seo, Jinkyoung Yoo, Shadi Dayeh, Samuel Picraux, Antoinette Taylor and Rohit Prasankumar); Ultrafast Dynamics and Control in Transition Metal Oxides (Richard Averitt); Ultrafast Charge Dynamics in Ionic Materials Studied by Femtosecond X-Ray Diffraction (Thomas Elsaesser); Ultrafast Dynamics at Photovoltaic Interfaces (Guglielmo Lanzani); Carbon-Based Materials/Graphene: Ultrafast Photodynamics in Graphene: One-Photon Absorption Saturation vs Two-Photon Absorption (Wei Ji); Ultrafast Electron-Electron Dynamics in Graphene (Daniele Brida, Cristian Manzoni, Giulio Cerullo, Andrea Tomadin, Marco Polini, Rahul R Nair, Andre K Geim, Konstantin S Novoselov, Silvia Milana, Antonio Lombardo and Andrea Ferrari).