This article about Basque scientist Pedro Miguel Etxenike appeared at EITb:
This is the link to Nature Magazine.
Sci/Tech
The future of electronics
Basque scientist opens new roads to future technology
10/25/2007
A research by the Basque scientist P.M. Etxenike hit the cover of the scientific magazine Nature on Thursday. The research constitutes a powerful tool for exploring electronic processes on the attosecond timescale.
A research on the dynamic behavior of electrons in condensed-matter systems hit the cover of the scientific magazine Nature on Thursday. The research, carried out by the Basque scientist P.M. Etxenike, proves that attosecond metrology constitutes a powerful tool for exploring not only gas-phase systems, but also fundamental electronic processes occurring on the attosecond timescale in condensed-matter systems and on surfaces.
Etxenike points out that the main achievement of the research, coordinated by scientists from the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science and the University of Bielefeld (Germany), was to obtain the "most precise measurement" on this scale.
It is the "first step of the way to the development of techniques of ultrafast electronics," the Basque scientist says. It is a very short time but it is the scale in which technology advances in the future will take place.
According to Etxenike, who chairs the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), this discovery "opens a new way where attosecond Physics and Nanotechnology meet".
Other Nature covers have included research works by other scientists such as Juan Luis Arsuaga, Agustín Sánchez-Lavega, Xavier Irigoyen and Salvador Moyá.
This is the link to Nature Magazine.
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