PROBLEM
Some actions that last only a few femtoseconds, or one-quadrillionth of a second, are of keen interest to scientists in academia and industry. Traditional streak cameras used to record ultrafast actions, however, have limited time resolution: they can only resolve 600 to 800 femtoseconds.
SOLUTION
Researchers at Purdue University are developing a patent-pending streak camera that has the potential to speed up the process by 10,000 to 100,000 times over traditional streak cameras. The research team has created each component of the device and tested them separately. The initial tests have been simulations, and final experiments are being designed.
PRIMARY INVESTIGATORS
Vladimir M. Shalaev, the Bob and Anne Burnett Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Alexandra Boltasseva, the Ron and Dotty Garvin Tonjes Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; and Alexander V. Kildishev, professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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LICENSING CONTACTS
Email: otcip@prf.org
MEDIA CONTACT
Email: Steve Martin // sgmartin@prf.org
QUOTE
“The Purdue streak camera could have applications in fields such as biology to study protein folding for applications in drug discovery, in chemistry to study charge transfer in reactions for more effective catalyst design, and physics and engineering to study atomic transitions for next-generation computer chips.” Jacob Brejcha, Licensing Associate – Physical Sciences