Venue: Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) Public Lecture Series
Thursday, 09/21/23
Clocking Electrons: an Attosecond Stopwatch Electrons in a molecule zip around the atom in times measured in billionths of a billionth of a second, or attoseconds. To learn the basic mechanisms of chemical reactions - how catalysts work, how batteries operate - we need to follow electrons over these very short times, and for that, ...