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Publications (14)

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Impact of a monolayer on the nanoscale thermoelastic response of silicon heterostructures

Davide Soranzio, Denny Puntel, Manuel Tuniz +18

Understanding the thermoelastic response of a nanostructure is crucial for the choice of materials and interfaces in electronic devices with improved and tailored transport propert…

physics.optics2021

Hard X-ray Transient Grating Spectroscopy on Bismuth Germanate

Jeremy R. Rouxel, Danny Fainozzi, Roman Mankowsky +44

Optical-domain Transient Grating (TG) spectroscopy is a versatile background-free four-wave-mixing technique used to probe vibrational, magnetic and electronic degrees of freedom i…

physics.optics2023

A high-efficiency programmable modulator for extreme ultraviolet light with nm feature size based on an electronic phase transition

Igor Vaskivskyi, Anze Mraz, Rok Venturini +11

The absence of efficient light modulators for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and X-ray photons significantly limits their real-life application, particularly when even slight complexity…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

BGO relaxation dynamics probed with heterodyne detected optical transient gratings

Danny Fainozzi, Sara Catalini, Renato torre +2

We used optical laser pulses to create transient gratings (TGs) with sub-10 μm spatial periodicity in a Bismuth Germanate (310) (Bi4Ge3O12) single crystal at room temperature. The…

physics.chem-ph2023

X-ray Circular Dichroism measured by cross-polarization X-ray Transient Grating

Jeremy R. Rouxel, Riccardo Mincigrucci, Danny Fainozzi +1

Measuring natural circular dichroism in the X-ray regime to extract stereochemical information from chiral molecules in solution remains a challenge. This is primarily due to techn…

physics.optics2023

Stimulated Brillouin scattering at 1 nm-1 wavevector by extreme ultraviolet transient gratings

Danny Fainozzi, Laura Foglia, Riccardo Mincigrucci +4

We crossed two femtosecond extreme ultraviolet (EUV) pulses in a beta - Ga2O3 (001) single crystal to create transient gratings (TG) of light intensity with sub-100 nm spatial peri…

physics.optics2023

Three-dimensional coherent diffraction snapshot imaging using extreme ultraviolet radiation from a free electron laser

Danny Fainozzi, Matteo Ippoliti, Fulvio Billè +14

The possibility to obtain a three-dimensional representation of a single object with sub-m resolution is crucial in many fields, from material science to clinical diagnostics.…

cond-mat.soft2020

Element- and enantiomer-selective visualization of ibuprofen dimer vibrations

R. Mincigrucci, Jeremy Rouxel, Barbara Rossi +19

In chemistry, biology and materials science, the ability to access interatomic interactions and their dynamical evolution has become possible with the advent of femtosecond lasers.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Transient grating spectroscopy on a DyCo thin film with femtosecond extreme ultraviolet pulses

Victor Ukleev, Ludmila Leroy, Riccardo Mincigrucci +11

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) are excited by femtosecond extreme ultraviolet (EUV) transient gratings (TGs) in a room-temperature ferrimagnetic DyCo alloy. TGs are generated by…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Ultrafast dynamics in (TaSe)I triggered by valence and core-level excitation

Wibke Bronsch, Manuel Tuniz, Giuseppe Crupi +16

In this work, we study the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of the paradigmatic quasi-one-dimensional material (TaSe)I, that exhibits a transition into an incommensurate CDW pha…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Effect of intense x-ray free-electron laser transient gratings on the magnetic domain structure of Tm:YIG

Victor Ukleev, Max Burian, Sebastian Gliga +13

Magnetic patterns can be controlled globally using fields or spin polarized currents. In contrast, the local control of the magnetization on the nanometer length scale remains chal…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Nanoscale transient polarization gratings

Laura Foglia, Björn Wehinger, Giovanni Perosa +24

We present the generation of transient polarization gratings at the nanoscale, achieved using a tailored accelerator configuration of the FERMI free electron laser. We demonstrate…

physics.optics2026

Spin waves excited by hard x-ray transient gratings

Peter R. Miedaner, Alexei A. Maznev, Mykola Biednov +49

Recent progress in ultrafast x-ray sources helped establish x-rays as an important tool for probing lattice and magnetic dynamics initiated by femtosecond optical pulses. Here, we…

physics.optics2025

Resonant Self-Diffraction of Femtosecond Extreme Ultraviolet Pulses in Cobalt

Alexei A. Maznev, Wonseok Lee, Scott K. Cushing +14

Self-diffraction is a non-collinear four-wave mixing technique well-known in optics. We explore self-diffraction in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) range, taking advantage of intense…