Light-driven nanoscale vectorial currents.


Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
07 Feb 2024
Historique:
received: 11 08 2023
accepted: 05 01 2024
medline: 8 2 2024
pubmed: 8 2 2024
entrez: 7 2 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Controlled charge flows are fundamental to many areas of science and technology, serving as carriers of energy and information, as probes of material properties and dynamics

Identifiants

pubmed: 38326619
doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07037-4
pii: 10.1038/s41586-024-07037-4
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

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Informations de copyright

© 2024. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Jacob Pettine (J)

Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA. jacob.pettine@lanl.gov.

Prashant Padmanabhan (P)

Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA.

Teng Shi (T)

Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA.

Lauren Gingras (L)

Menlo Systems, Martinsried, Germany.

Luke McClintock (L)

Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA.
Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA.

Chun-Chieh Chang (CC)

Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA.

Kevin W C Kwock (KWC)

Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA.
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.

Long Yuan (L)

Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA.

Yue Huang (Y)

Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA.

John Nogan (J)

Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA.

Jon K Baldwin (JK)

Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA.

Peter Adel (P)

Menlo Systems, Martinsried, Germany.

Ronald Holzwarth (R)

Menlo Systems, Martinsried, Germany.

Abul K Azad (AK)

Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA.

Filip Ronning (F)

Institute for Materials Science, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA.

Antoinette J Taylor (AJ)

Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA.

Rohit P Prasankumar (RP)

Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA.
Intellectual Ventures, Bellevue, WA, USA.

Shi-Zeng Lin (SZ)

Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA.

Hou-Tong Chen (HT)

Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA. chenht@lanl.gov.

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