Surface plasmons undergo ultrafast dynamics on the attosecond timescale. Probing these ultrabrief effects is notoriously difficult, but a new microscope could pave the way towards an understanding of these fields and, ultimately, control of them.
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Nisoli, M. Brave new attoworld. Nature Photon 1, 499–500 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2007.154
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