Nanorad - Ultrafast, nano-scale material response to radiation and applications of ultrafast radiation sources.

等离子体物理中心在开发强激光和激光驱动的超快辐射源方面处于国际领先地位。这一平台赠款将允许对上一次非常成功的平台赠款中播种的开发进行战略开发。特别是，从X射线到粒子束的超快激光驱动辐射源的出现，使人们能够在最短的时间尺度和纳米尺度上研究自然界的动力学。这是这次平台赠款的核心主题，是继第一次平台赠款期间在这些领域取得成功之后的又一次成功。由此产生了世界上最强大的几个周期(10fs)激光器--Taranis-X项目。这些高能、极短的脉冲是昆士兰大学塔拉尼斯实验室的关键扩展，将使尖端科学成为可能。这项提议的总体战略目标是充分利用激光驱动辐射源所实现的新途径，并通过在拟议的NanoRad平台资助下通过密切整合学术人员而充分利用通过密切整合学术人员而获得的协同效应，从而最大化最近资助的Taranis-X项目(EPSRC实验设备呼叫)的科学影响。

The Centre for Plasma Physics is internationally leading in the exploitation of intense lasers and laser driven ultrafast radiation sources. This platform grant will allow strategic exploitation of the developments seeded in the previous, highly successful platform grant. In particular, the advent of ultrafast laser driven radiation sources ranging from x-rays to particle beams allows the dynamics of the natural world at the shortest timescales and spatially on the nanoscale to be investigated. This is the core theme of this platform grant, which follows on from the success in these areas achieved during the first platform grant. Emerging from this is the development of the worlds most powerful few-cycle (<10fs) laser - the TARANIS-X project. These high-energy, extremely short pulses are a key extension to the TARANIS facility at QUB and will enable cutting edge science.The over-arching strategic goal of this proposal is to fully exploit the new pathways that have been enabled by laser driven radiation sources and to maximize the scientific impact of the recently funded TARANIS-X project (EPSRC Experimental Equipment Call) by fully exploiting the synergies available through close integration of academic staff under the auspices of the proposed NanoRad Platform Grant.