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Epitaxial Nanostructured α-Quartz Films on Silicon: From the Material to New Devices
Published on: October 6, 2020
Femtosecond manipulation of spins, charges, and ions in nanostructures, thin films, and surfaces
F Carbone1, M Hengsberger2, L Castiglioni2
1Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Institute of Physics, Laboratory for Ultrafast Microscopy and Electron Scattering (LUMES), EPFL Campus, Lausanne, Dorigny CH-1015, Switzerland.
Abstract:
Modern ultrafast techniques provide new insights into the dynamics of ions, charges, and spins in photoexcited nanostructures. In this review, we describe the use of time-resolved electron-based methods to address specific questions such as the ordering properties of self-assembled nanoparticles supracrystals, the interplay between electronic and structural dynamics in surfaces and adsorbate layers, the light-induced control of collective electronic modes in nanowires and thin films, and the real-space/real-time evolution of the skyrmion lattice in topological magnets.
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