1st funding period
Project group A: Control of dissipation
The A projects jointly study: Energy dissipation channels in a common group of tunable materials using a variety of primary excitations.
They involve light, heat pulses, mechanical stimuli and molecular collisions. These different stimuli will probe dissipative microscopic degrees of freedom by a well-defined selection of the primary excitation, which can be either electrons or phonons. In addition, the bandwidth of the excitation can be changed from monochromatic to thermal or white noise.
- The central questions are:
- Can dissipation be controlled by tuning phonon and electron states?
- Can dissipation channels be switched by active control?
- What is the nature of optical excitations in correlated systems?
- Can photon energy conversion be controlled by tunable correlations, i.e. electron-phonon, electron-electron, electron-spin?
- What is the nature of active states and involved intermediates and barriers?
- Can multi-step reactions be controlled via different types of correlations and active intervention?
Project group B: Conversion of optical excitations
The B projects jointly study: Conversion of optically induced cooperative excitations in tunable materials.
The projects focus on strongly correlated oxides and molecular systems which have in common that they show a strong correlation between electronic and structural degrees of freedom.
The cooperative excitations are directed into different forms of energy: Structure changes, Changes in charge / electric state, Mechanical work.
- The central questions are:
Project group C: Photon and electron driven reactions at interfaces
Project group C studies photon and electron driven reactions at interfaces. The C projects jointly study:
Storing energy in chemical bonds in multi-step reactions at interfaces.
They will perform real time and atomic scale studies of the involved processes.
- Central questions of the C projects are:
