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20172025
most citedUltrafast high-harmonic nanoscopy of magnetization dynamics

60 citations · 68 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Picosecond localization dynamics following ultrafast nanoscale magnetic switching

Daniel Metternich, Michael Schneider, Giuseppe Mercurio +28

Ultrashort laser pulses provide the fastest known way to switch magnetic order. Such excitation commonly creates nanometer-scale domains, even after homogeneous illumination when t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Revealing domain wall stability during ultrafast demagnetization

Hung-Tzu Chang, Sergey Zayko, Timo Schmidt +5

The ultrafast control of nanoscale spin textures such as magnetic domain walls or skyrmions is essential for advancing high-speed, high-density spintronics. However, imaging their…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

2024 Roadmap on Magnetic Microscopy Techniques and Their Applications in Materials Science

D. V. Christensen, U. Staub, T. R. Devidas +50

Considering the growing interest in magnetic materials for unconventional computing, data storage, and sensor applications, there is active research not only on material synthesis…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 1 cited

Coherent x-ray magnetic imaging with 5 nm resolution

Riccardo Battistelli, Daniel Metternich, Michael Schneider +13

Soft x-ray microscopy plays an important role in modern spintronics. However, the achievable resolution of most x-ray magnetic imaging experiments is above 10 nm, limiting access t…

physics.optics2023★ 1 cited

High-sensitivity extreme-ultraviolet transient absorption spectroscopy enabled by machine learning

Tobias Heinrich, Hung-Tzu Chang, Sergey Zayko +2

We introduce a machine-learning-based approach to enhance the sensitivity of optical-extreme ultraviolet (XUV) transient absorption spectroscopy. A reference spectrum is used as in…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 4 cited

Electronic and structural fingerprints of charge density wave excitations in extreme ultraviolet transient absorption spectroscopy

Tobias Heinrich, Hung-Tzu Chang, Sergey Zayko +3

Femtosecond core-level transient absorption spectroscopy is utilized to investigate photoinduced dynamics of the charge density wave in 1T-TiSe2 at the Ti M2,3 edge (30-50 eV). Pho…

physics.optics2020★ 60 cited

Ultrafast high-harmonic nanoscopy of magnetization dynamics

Sergey Zayko, Ofer Kfir, Michael Heigl +4

Light-induced magnetization changes, such as all-optical switching, skyrmion nucleation, and intersite spin transfer, unfold on temporal and spatial scales down to femtoseconds and…

physics.optics2017★ 1 cited

Nanoscale Magnetic Imaging using Circularly Polarized High-Harmonic Radiation

Ofer Kfir, Sergey Zayko, Christina Nolte +10

This work demonstrates nanoscale magnetic imaging using bright circularly polarized high-harmonic radiation. We utilize the magneto-optical contrast of worm-like magnetic domains i…