Hamburg Photon Science Colloquium | Tracking electron dynamics in realtime

by Francesca Calegari (DESY & University of Hamburg, Germany)

Friday 29 Jun 2018, 14:00 → 15:30 Europe/Berlin

CFEL SR I-III (Bldg. 99) (DESY, Hamburg)

Observing electron dynamics in matter on its natural time scale requires attosecond technology. We show how isolated attosecond pulses can be used in combination with phase-stable infrared/ultraviolet pulses to track ultrafast charge dynamics in biorelevant molecules such as amino acids and nucleobases as well as in nanoparticles. Our results open new important perspectives for a future understanding of the role of the electronic motion in the photochemistry of complex molecules.