BIO
Carlos Hernández García (Salamanca, 1948) is an assistant professor of Applied Physics at Universidad de Salamanca. He received his doctorate summa cum laude after two stays at the JILA institute of the University of Colorado (United States), after which he was published in front-ranking scientific journals (’Science,’ ‘Physical Review Letters’).
PROJECT
His project will work on the development of hard X-ray lasers, a new generation of lasers to boost ultra-speed nanotechnology, which is needed in a variety of fields such as manufacturing the next generation of electronic devices and magnetic storage, as well as photovoltaic energy management.
This nanotechnology demands tools that can control new materials in nanometric sizes and in ultrafast scales of time that hard X-ray lasers can manage, as their performance is more than a thousand times better than the current ones.