Spatiotemporal Microscopy: Shining Light on Transport Phenomena
Abstract Transport phenomena like diffusion, convection, and drift play key roles in the sciences and engineering disciplines. They belong to the most omnipresent and important phenomena in nature that describe the motion of entities such as mass, charge or heat. Understanding and controlling these...
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| author | Guillermo D. Brinatti Vazquez Giulia Lo Gerfo Morganti Alexander Block Niek F. van Hulst Matz Liebel Klaas‐Jan Tielrooij |
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| description | Abstract Transport phenomena like diffusion, convection, and drift play key roles in the sciences and engineering disciplines. They belong to the most omnipresent and important phenomena in nature that describe the motion of entities such as mass, charge or heat. Understanding and controlling these transport phenomena is crucial for a host of industrial technologies and applications, from cooling nuclear reactors to nanoscale heat‐management in the semiconductor industry. For decades, macroscopic transport techniques have been used to access important parameters such as charge mobilities or thermal conductivities. While being powerful, they often require physical contacts, which can lead to unwanted effects. Over the past years, an exciting solution has emerged: a technique called spatiotemporal microscopy (SPTM) that accesses crucial transport phenomena in a contactless, all‐optical, fashion. This technique offers powerful advantages in terms of accessible timescales, down to femtoseconds, and length scales, down to nanometres, and, further, selectively observes different species of interest. This tutorial review discusses common experimental configurations of SPTM and explains how they can be implemented by those entering the field. This review highlights the broad applicability of SPTM by presenting several exciting examples of transport phenomena that were unravelled thanks to this technique. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-60a2081c546c4283932cd086f81997e52024-02-27T04:06:06ZengWiley-VCHAdvanced Electronic Materials2199-160X2024-02-01102n/an/a10.1002/aelm.202300584Spatiotemporal Microscopy: Shining Light on Transport PhenomenaGuillermo D. Brinatti Vazquez0Giulia Lo Gerfo Morganti1Alexander Block2Niek F. van Hulst3Matz Liebel4Klaas‐Jan Tielrooij5ICFO‐Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology Castelldefels Barcelona 08860 SpainICFO‐Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology Castelldefels Barcelona 08860 SpainCatalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology ‐ ICN2 (BIST and CSIC) Campus UAB Bellaterra Barcelona 08193 SpainICFO‐Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology Castelldefels Barcelona 08860 SpainDepartment of Physics and Astronomy Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam De Boelelaan 1081 Amsterdam 1081 HV The NetherlandsCatalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology ‐ ICN2 (BIST and CSIC) Campus UAB Bellaterra Barcelona 08193 SpainAbstract Transport phenomena like diffusion, convection, and drift play key roles in the sciences and engineering disciplines. They belong to the most omnipresent and important phenomena in nature that describe the motion of entities such as mass, charge or heat. Understanding and controlling these transport phenomena is crucial for a host of industrial technologies and applications, from cooling nuclear reactors to nanoscale heat‐management in the semiconductor industry. For decades, macroscopic transport techniques have been used to access important parameters such as charge mobilities or thermal conductivities. While being powerful, they often require physical contacts, which can lead to unwanted effects. Over the past years, an exciting solution has emerged: a technique called spatiotemporal microscopy (SPTM) that accesses crucial transport phenomena in a contactless, all‐optical, fashion. This technique offers powerful advantages in terms of accessible timescales, down to femtoseconds, and length scales, down to nanometres, and, further, selectively observes different species of interest. This tutorial review discusses common experimental configurations of SPTM and explains how they can be implemented by those entering the field. This review highlights the broad applicability of SPTM by presenting several exciting examples of transport phenomena that were unravelled thanks to this technique.https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.202300584charge transportheat transportmicroscopyspatiotemporalspectroscopyultrafast |
| spellingShingle | Guillermo D. Brinatti Vazquez Giulia Lo Gerfo Morganti Alexander Block Niek F. van Hulst Matz Liebel Klaas‐Jan Tielrooij Spatiotemporal Microscopy: Shining Light on Transport Phenomena Advanced Electronic Materials charge transport heat transport microscopy spatiotemporal spectroscopy ultrafast |
| title | Spatiotemporal Microscopy: Shining Light on Transport Phenomena |
| title_full | Spatiotemporal Microscopy: Shining Light on Transport Phenomena |
| title_fullStr | Spatiotemporal Microscopy: Shining Light on Transport Phenomena |
| title_full_unstemmed | Spatiotemporal Microscopy: Shining Light on Transport Phenomena |
| title_short | Spatiotemporal Microscopy: Shining Light on Transport Phenomena |
| title_sort | spatiotemporal microscopy shining light on transport phenomena |
| topic | charge transport heat transport microscopy spatiotemporal spectroscopy ultrafast |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.202300584 |
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