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Welcome to XTreme Photonics Labs
Our research program focuses on the dynamic visualization of ultrafast electronic processes of matter with light. To this end, we develop and utilize intense, ultrashort, laser pulses whose field-waveform is controlled with sub-cycle precision. Under such fields, the interaction of laser and matter becomes extremely nonlinear and offers the possibility to devise new methodologies of probing the fundamental properties of electrons in a wide range of materials ranging from atoms to complex solids. Understanding and controlling the microcosm at the level of electrons may turn essential in future photonic and electronic technologies whose building blocks size is gradually reducing from the mesoscopic to the atomic and molecular scales.
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Farewell to Hee-Yong Kim: From Attoseconds to Semiconductors
After 11 years in our group, Hee-Yong is off to his next adventure at KLA Semiconductors!
He joined us as a master’s student, tackled a PhD on attosecond field emission, and then stayed on for three more years as a postdoc - driving experiments forward, solving problems no one else wanted to touch, and somehow keeping both his plants and his old laptops alive in the process.
While we’ll miss having him around, we’re excited to see what he builds (or repairs!) next at KLA. If history is any guide, it’ll work beautifully, even if it’s running on a laptop from the early 2000s. XTreme Photonics Labs wishes Hee-Yong every success in his next chapter!
The Physicist from Crete Who Excels Internationally
Mister Pi und der 2,5-Millionen-Preis
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