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O: Fachverband Oberflächenphysik

O 10: Overview Talk: Jascha Repp

O 10.1: Invited Talk

Monday, March 20, 2017, 15:00–15:45, TRE Phy

Overview of the development of ultrafast scanning tunneling microscopy — Dominik Peller, Tyler L. Cocker, Ping Yu, Rupert Huber, and •Jascha Repp — Department of Physics, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany

Since the early days of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) people have tried to combine atomic-scale resolution with an ultrafast temporal resolution [1]. Recently time-dithering optical pulse pairs has minimized the deleterious effect of light-induced heating [2] and hot-electron transfer has been demonstrated with sub-molecular resolution [3]. An all-electronic pump-probe scheme [4] has allowed for a direct observation of the relaxation of individual spins at the nanosecond timescale. Cocker et al. [5] were the first to use terahertz (THz) pulses acting analogously to voltage pulses accessing much shorter timescales. Recently, THz-STM enabled a novel, state-selective regime, in which a single electron can be selectively removed from a specific molecular orbital at combined sub-Ångstrom and sub-picosecond resolution [6].

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