Overview
- Includes a foreword of Nobel laureate Ahmed H. Zewail
- Explains the potential of femtochemistry for the study of chemical processes
- Presents methods to study ultrafast photo-induced molecular processes
- Provides information about the application of ultrashort laser pulses to femtochemistry
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Chemical Physics (CHEMICAL, volume 107)
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This book presents the latest developments in Femtosecond Chemistry and Physics for the study of ultrafast photo-induced molecular processes. Molecular systems, from the simplest H2 molecule to polymers or biological macromolecules, constitute central objects of interest for Physics, Chemistry and Biology, and despite the broad range of phenomena that they exhibit, they share some common behaviors. One of the most significant of those is that many of the processes involving chemical transformation (nuclear reorganization, bond breaking, bond making) take place in an extraordinarily short time, in or around the femtosecond temporal scale (1 fs = 10-15 s). A number of experimental approaches - very particularly the developments in the generation and manipulation of ultrashort laser pulses - coupled with theoretical progress, provide the ultrafast scientist with powerful tools to understand matter and its interaction with light, at this spatial and temporal scale. This book is an attempt to reunite some of the state-of-the-art research that is being carried out in the field of ultrafast molecular science, from theoretical developments, through new phenomena induced by intense laser fields, to the latest techniques applied to the study of molecular dynamics.
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Front Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ultrafast Phenomena in Molecular Sciences
Book Subtitle: Femtosecond Physics and Chemistry
Editors: Rebeca Nalda, Luis Bañares
Series Title: Springer Series in Chemical Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02051-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-02050-1Published: 31 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35030-1Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-02051-8Published: 22 October 2013
Series ISSN: 0172-6218
Series E-ISSN: 2364-9003
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 287
Number of Illustrations: 55 b/w illustrations, 67 illustrations in colour
Topics: Physical Chemistry, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Spectroscopy/Spectrometry, Classical Electrodynamics, Atomic/Molecular Structure and Spectra