Controlling Electrons in Molecules at Ultrafast Timescales

2025/03/07
  • RIKEN
    YOKOHAMA National University
    The University of Tokyo
    Hamamatsu Photonics K. K.

Scientists at YOKOHAMA National University, in collaboration with RIKEN and other institutions in Japan and Korea, have made an important discovery about how electrons move and behave in molecules. This discovery could potentially lead to advances in electronics, energy transfer, and chemical reactions. Published in the Journal, Science, their study reveals a new way to control the distribution of electrons in molecules using very fast phase-controlled pulses of light in the terahertz range.