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Seeing excitations in a new light

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By combining the benefits of multidimensional spectroscopy with photoemission electron microscopy, scientists in Germany have successfully mapped the coherence lifetimes of plasmons in silver with nanoscale spatial resolution and femtosecond temporal resolution.

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Figure 1: Combining multidimensional spectroscopy with PEEM.

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  1. Department of Physics, Anders Mikkelsen is at Synchrotron Radiation Research, the Nanometer Structure Consortium, Lund University, Box 118, 22100 Lund, Sweden,

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Mikkelsen, A. Seeing excitations in a new light. Nature Photon 5, 651–653 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2011.281

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