Co-organizers; Ara Apkarian (UC-Irvine), Eric Potma (UC-Irvine)
Sessions:
S26 (Thurs Mid-day)
V26 (Thurs PM)
X26 (Fri AM)
The science we probe is limited by the tools we possess, but by the same token, the sharpening of tools is tantamount to opening new vistas in science. This series of session focuses on the sharpest edge of the tools available to chemical physics: a) Submolecular spatial resolution, made possible through novel methods in scan-probe microscopy, whereby chemical bonds within molecules can be seen and manipulated individually. b) The attosecond frontier in time resolution has now matured to the point of implementation in chemical physics, to clock the motion of valence and core electrons in molecules. The field is vast, yet it is possible to hold a session of vignettes on the edge of the doable in time. c) One of the more exciting frontiers is the combination of the space and time, ultrafast and ultrasmall, to visualize dynamical processes on chemical scales of relevance. This joint front includes spectrally and temporally resolved nanoscopy. Several new methods are coming online in this field, e.g., photo-induced force microscopy, and there already are excellent examples of novel science discovered with these tools.
Session 1: Seeing with Submolecular spatial resolution: Wilson Ho, chair
- Wilson Ho, UCI, Inelastic electron tunneling microscopy
- Leo Gross, IBM Zurich, Pauli force microscopy
- F. S. Tautz, Julich, Scanning tunneling hydrogen microscopy
Session 2: Ultrafast nanospectromicroscopy
- Libai Huang, Purdue, Ultrafast nanoscopy from bio to nano
- Naomi Ginzberg, Berkeley, Spectroscopy with spatiotemporal resolution
- John Papanikolas, UNC, Time resolved microscopy
Session 3: At the attosecond horizon
- Stephen Leone, UC-Berkeley, Perspectives on atto-science
- Zhengu Chang, Florida, Taming the Attosecond front
- H.J. Wormer, ETH-Zurich, Attosecond science in the liquid phase