Dr. Liao's research is focused on using coherent light sources (in the infrared, visible, extreme ultraviolet, and x-rays spectral ranges) to probe quantum effects in atoms, molecules, and materials—unveiling complex light-matter interactions on a nanometer spatial scale and femtosecond or sub-femtosecond timescale.
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X-ray and laser sciences, atomic molecular and optical physics, condensed matter physics, quantum sensing and quantum metrology, quantum optics, nonlinear optics, ultrafast science, imaging science, nanomaterials characterization