The photoelectric effect: from Einstein to the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics
David Busto
Department of Physics, Lund University, Sweden
Abstract:
The explanation of the photoelectric effect in 1905 by Albert Einstein played a key role in the development of quantum mechanics and earned Einstein the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921. Since then, this phenomenon has been applied to study the structure of matter using photoelectron spectroscopy (Nobel Prize 1981) and electron microscopy (Nobel Prize 1986). In 2023, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the development of experimental methods that generate attosecond (1 as = 10-18 s) light pulses. The extremely short duration of these pulses allow studying and controlling electronic motion in matter on its natural timescale, including the dynamics of photoemission.
In this seminar, I will discuss how the study of the photoelectric effect using strong laser fields paved the way for the development of attosecond physics. I will give a short overview of the current research landscape in attoscience before moving back to the photoelectric effect and showing how, in turn, attosecond science has shed some new light onto this fundamental phenomenon.
Seminar takes place on Thursday, November 14th 2024 at 2:00 PM
in the IEAP meeting room, Praha 1, Husova 240/5.
| Ing. Bartoloměj Biskup, Ph.D. seminar chair |
doc. Ing. Ivan Štekl, CSc. director of IEAP |
doc. Dr. André Sopczak IEEE CS - NPSS chair |
NUCLEAR & PLASMA SCIENCES SOCIETY CHAPTER
IEEE Czechoslovakia section
https://www.ieee.cz/main/section/nps/