November 25 - 30, 2018
Boston, Massachusetts
2018 MRS Fall Meeting

Symposium CM04-Ultrafast Optical Probes for Advanced Materials Characterization and Development

Advanced ultrafast spectroscopies that exploit not only the high temporal resolution afforded by femtosecond lasers, but that also permit manipulation of light-matter interactions via a nonlinear optical response or coherent pulse shaping, have very steadily moved from niche studies of model systems to real-world materials probes. This symposium takes stock of recent developments in ultrafast spectroscopic techniques in addressing contemporary issues in emerging semiconductor materials. This provides an ideal platform for both laser physicists and material scientists to explore ways to converge established and emerging ultrafast techniques for material characterization and development.




Topics will include:

  • Photo-excitation dynamics in materials, probed via transient absorption and luminescence spectroscopies
  • Structure-property relationships of ultrafast carrier dynamics via spatial probes (optical or electronic microscopy and spectroscopy)
  • Defect physics probed via ultrafast optical/opto-electronic spectroscopies
  • Ultrafast optoelectronic probes (Stark effects, current, interface potentials) applied to functional devices
  • Experiments that include magnetic, electrical or pressure perturbations to the standard optical detection
  • Multi-dimensional and other non-linear spectroscopies exploring multi-particle physics in materials
  • Hybrid methods that employ optical pump and Xray/electron/THz probes
  • Role of vibrations in the fate of optical excitations probed via ultrafast Raman probes
  • Materials of interest: metal halide perovskites, 2D transition-metal di-calchogenides, quantum dots and other nanostructures, organic semiconductors

Invited Speakers:

  • Matthew Graham (Oregon State University, USA)
  • Siva Umapathy (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
  • Annamaria Petrozza (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy)
  • Xiaoyang Zhu (Columbia University, USA)
  • Matthrew Beard (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA)
  • Eric Bittner (University of Houston, USA)
  • Giulio Cerrulo (Instituto Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
  • Jenny Clark (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
  • David Cooke (McGill University, Canada)
  • Steve Cundiff (University of Michigan, USA)
  • Marcos Dantus (Michigan State University/Biophotonics Solutions, USA)
  • Felix Deshler (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
  • Naomi Ginsberg (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
  • Frank Hegmann (University of Alberta, Canada)
  • Tony Heinz (Stanford University, USA)
  • Laura Herz (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
  • Libai Huang (Purdue University, USA)
  • Anna Köhler (Bayreuth University, Germany)
  • Dwayne Miller (Max Planck Institute for the structure and Dynamics of Matter, Germany)
  • Keith Nelson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
  • Tönü Pullerits (Lund University, Sweden)
  • Sean Roberts (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
  • Greg Scholes (Princeton University, USA)
  • Brad Siwick (McGill University, Canada)
  • Julia Stahler (Ftitz Haber Institute, Germany)
  • Howe-Siang Tan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
  • Sergei Tretiak (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)

Symposium Organizers

Carlos Silva
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Physics
USA

Kimberley Hall
Dalhousie University
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science
Canada

Ajay Srimath Kandada
Wake Forest University, USA
Department of Physics
USA

Cathy Wong
University of Oregon
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
USA

Topics

electronic material electronic structure electron-phonon interactions energetic material laser lighting optoelectronic photoconductivity simulation spectroscopy