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Making 'movies' at the attosecond scale helps researchers better understand electrons − and could one day lead to super-fast electronics

  • Written by Niranjan Shivaram, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University
imageAttosecond light pulses help researchers understand the movement of electrons. Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, CC BY-SA

Electrons moving around in a molecule might not seem like the plot of an interesting movie. But a group of scientists will receive the 2023 Nobel Prize in physics for research that essentially follows the...

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