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Publications (9)

cond-mat.str-el2023

All-optical seeding of a light-induced phase transition with correlated disorder

Allan S. Johnson, Ernest Pastor, Sergi Batlle-Porro +8

Ultrafast manipulation of vibrational coherence is an emergent route to control the structure of solids. However, this strategy can only induce long-range correlations and cannot m…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Optically Induced Picosecond Lattice Compression in the Dielectric Component of a Strongly Coupled Ferroelectric/Dielectric Superlattice

Deepankar Sri Gyan, Hyeon Jun Lee, Youngjun Ahn +13

Above-bandgap femtosecond optical excitation of a ferroelectric/dielectric BaTiO3/CaTiO3 superlattice leads to structural responses that are a consequence of the screening of the s…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019

Non-thermal fluence threshold for femtosecond pulsed x-ray radiation damage in perovskite complex oxide epitaxial heterostructures

Hyeon Jun Lee, Youngjun Ahn, Samuel D. Marks +13

Intense hard x-ray pulses from a free-electron laser induce irreversible structural damage in a perovskite oxide epitaxial heterostructure when pulse fluences exceed a threshold va…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Structural evidence for ultrafast polarization rotation in ferroelectric/dielectric superlattice nanodomains

Hyeon Jun Lee, Youngjun Ahn, Samuel D. Marks +16

Weakly coupled ferroelectric/dielectric superlattice thin film heterostructures exhibit complex nanoscale polarization configurations that arise from a balance of competing electro…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Simultaneous Bright- and Dark-Field X-ray Microscopy at X-ray Free Electron Lasers

Leora E. Dresselhaus-Marais, Bernard Kozioziemski, Theodor S. Holstad +40

The structures, strain fields, and defect distributions in solid materials underlie the mechanical and physical properties across numerous applications. Many modern microstructural…

physics.ins-det2022

An Online Dynamic Amplitude-Correcting Gradient Estimation Technique to Align X-ray Focusing Optics

Sean Breckling, Leora E. Dresselhaus-Marais, Eric Machorro +15

High-brightness X-ray pulses, as generated at synchrotrons and X-ray free electron lasers (XFEL), are used in a variety of scientific experiments. Many experimental testbeds requir…