Ultrafast Dynamics In Molecules, Nanostructures And Interfaces - Selected Lectures Presented At Symposium On Ultrafast Dynamics Of The 7th International Conference On Materials For Advanced Technologies

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 Juve, A Crut, N Del Fatti and F Vallee); 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 Muller1, Petar Lambrev, Yulia Miloslavina, Krysztof Pawlak and Gyozo 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).