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A movie of ultrafast electron dynamics driven by lightwaves shows that wide-bandgap semiconductors could form the building blocks of petahertz electronic devices.

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  1. Oliver D. Müke is in the Ultrafast Optics and X-Rays Group at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, 22607 Hamburg, Germany, and the Hamburg Center for Ultrafast Imaging CUI, 22761, Hamburg, Germany,

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Mücke, O. Pick up speed. Nature Phys 12, 724–725 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3746

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