Our group is developing new probes of quantum matter using coherent X-ray beams, which have undergone a revolution in the past decade. It is now possible to produce short wavelength waveforms with controlled spectral and temporal shapes, polarization state, and phase structure. Exciting recent advances also include the first sub-wavelength imaging at short wavelengths, the ability to directly manipulate spins in materials using light, the first methods to measure the full mechanical properties of ultrathin films and nanostructured media, uncovering new regimes of nanoscale heat flow, as well as routes for mapping new states and phases in quantum materials. Ultrafast coherent EUV and x-ray beams are thus becoming indispensable tools in the race to develop new nanoscale and quantum devices. We welcome trainees from physics, materials science, engineering and chemistry to work together to solve grand-challenge scientific problems that are also at the technological forefront.
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X-ray microscopy, ultrafast laser and x-ray science, quantum materials
SUBPICOSECOND LASER-PRODUCED PLASMAS.
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms.
463-467.
1989
PHYS 7810 - Special Topics in Physics
Primary Instructor
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Fall 2020
Various topics not normally covered in the curriculum; offered intermittently depending on student demand and availability of instructors. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours.
