Final Activity Report Summary - EREMON (Electronic response of molybdenum-based nanowires)
Femtosecond spectroscopy yielded a complex relaxation behaviour consisting of intraband relaxation during few 100 fs, followed by a cascade of interband transitions. The findings reveals potential for non-linear optical applications such as optical limiting and saturable absorbers. In electronics, the fast initial steps of the relaxation cascade enable high-frequency applications, while the final interband transition is slower and can buffer information for a few ns. Additionally, in the course of the project we found out that optical spectroscopy can also be very instrumental for the preparation and characterisation of NW dispersions.