Experimental Physical Chemistry
Date: 23 Apr 2025
At the GeM Laboratory’s Experimental Physical Chemistry Group, researchers employ light as a versatile tool to trigger, characterize, and control electronic behavior in advanced materials at extreme spatiotemporal scales.
Key questions they explore include:
- How to sensitively characterize energy transport while tracking critical parameters such as transfer rates, energy, and momentum?
- How to elucidate the role of molecular and lattice vibrations in energy transport and leverage these insights for modern device design?
- How to manipulate energy transport or steer chemical reactions using tailored light excitation or structural engineering?
The rapid emergence of nanomaterials, metamaterials, and quantum computing materials presents unprecedented opportunities for their research. Below are the key approaches they employ:
- Interferometric scattering microscopy (iSCAT)
- Ultrafast optical microscopy
- Ultrafast 2D Infrared spectroscopy