activity
20192025
most citedTime- and momentum-resolved photoemission studies using time-of-flight momentum microscopy at a free-electron laser

88 citations · 384 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

18 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Resonantly enhanced photoemission from topological surface states in MnBiTe

Paulina Majchrzak, Alfred J. H. Jones, Klara Volckaert +5

The dispersion of topological surface bands in MnBiTe-based magnetic topological insulator heterostructures is strongly affected by band hybridization and is spatially inho…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 4 cited

External screening and lifetime of exciton population in single-layer ReSe probed by time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy

Klara Volckaert, Byoung Ki Choi, Hyuk Jin Kim +7

The semiconductor ReSe is characterized by a strongly anisotropic optical absorption and is therefore promising as an optically active component in two-dimensional heterostruct…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 12 cited

Van der Waals engineering of ultrafast carrier dynamics in magnetic heterostructures

Paulina Majchrzak, Yuntian Liu, Klara Volckaert +10

Heterostructures composed of the intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBiTe and its non-magnetic counterpart BiTe host distinct surface electronic band structu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Epitaxial growth of a two-dimensional topological insulator candidate: monolayer Si2Te2

Xiaochun Huang, Rui Xiong, Klara Volckaert +9

Hexagonal Si2Te2 monolayers (ML-Si2Te2) were predicted to show strain-dependent band-crossover between semiconducting and room-temperature quantum spin Hall phases. However, invest…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Tracking the surface atomic motion in a coherent phonon oscillation

Davide Curcio, Klara Volckaert, Dmytro Kutnyakhov +10

X-ray photoelectron diffraction is a powerful tool for determining the structure of clean and adsorbate-covered surfaces. Extending the technique into the ultrafast time domain wil…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 56 cited

Ultrafast X-ray imaging of the light-induced phase transition in VO2

Allan S. Johnson, Daniel Pérez-Salinas, Khalid M. Siddiqui +26

Using light to control transient phases in quantum materials is an emerging route to engineer new properties and functionality, with both thermal and non-thermal phases observed ou…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 5 cited

Bulk band structure of SbTe determined by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy

Henriette E. Lund, Klara Volckaert, Paulina Majchrzak +4

The bulk band structure of the topological insulator \sbte~ is investigated by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. Of particular interest is the dispersion of the uppermost…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 24 cited

Ultrafast electronic line width broadening in the C 1s core level of graphene

Davide Curcio, Sahar Pakdel, Klara Volckaert +31

Core level binding energies and absorption edges are at the heart of many experimental techniques concerned with element-specific structure, electronic structure, chemical reactivi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Spectroscopic view of ultrafast charge carrier dynamics in single- and bilayer transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors

P. Majchrzak, K. Volckaert, A. G. Cabo +24

The quasiparticle spectra of atomically thin semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) and their response to an ultrafast optical excitation critically depend on inte…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 15 cited

Hot carrier-assisted switching of the electron-phonon interaction in 1-VSe

Paulina Majchrzak, Sahar Pakdel, Deepnarayan Biswas +20

We apply an intense infrared laser pulse in order to perturb the electronic and vibrational states in the three-dimensional charge density wave material 1-VSe. Ultrafast sna…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 23 cited

Ultrafast triggering of insulator-metal transition in two-dimensional VSe

Deepnarayan Biswas, Alfred J. H. Jones, Paulina Majchrzak +24

Assembling transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) at the two-dimensional (2D) limit is a promising approach for tailoring emerging states of matter such as superconductivity or c…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 48 cited

Observation of Electrically Tunable van Hove Singularities in Twisted Bilayer Graphene from nanoARPES

Alfred J. H. Jones, Ryan Muzzio, Paulina Majchrzak +16

The possibility of triggering correlated phenomena by placing a singularity of the density of states near the Fermi energy remains an intriguing avenue towards engineering the prop…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 23 cited

Accessing the spectral function in a current-carrying device

Davide Curcio, Alfred J. H. Jones, Ryan Muzzio +12

The presence of an electrical transport current in a material is one of the simplest and most important realisations of non-equilibrium physics. The current density breaks the crys…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 19 cited

Weyl-like points from band inversions of spin-polarised surface states in NbGeSb

I. Marković, C. A. Hooley, O. J. Clark +16

Band inversions are key to stabilising a variety of novel electronic states in solids, from topological surface states in inverted bulk band gaps of topological insulators to the f…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 18 cited

Layer and orbital interference effects in photoemission from transition metal dichalcogenides

Habib Rostami, Klara Volckaert, Nicola Lanata +10

In this work, we provide an effective model to evaluate the one-electron dipole matrix elements governing optical excitations and the photoemission process of single-layer (SL) and…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 15 cited

Momentum-resolved linear dichroism in bilayer MoS

Klara Volckaert, Habib Rostami, Deepnarayan Biswas +19

Inversion-symmetric crystals are optically isotropic and thus naively not expected to show dichroism effects in optical absorption and photoemission processes. Here, we find a stro…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 34 cited

Anisotropic two-dimensional screening at the surface of black phosphorus

Brian Kiraly, Elze J. Knol, Klara Volckaert +8

Screening in reduced dimensions has strong consequences on the electronic properties in van der Waals semiconductors, impacting the quasiparticle band gap and exciton binding energ…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 88 cited

Time- and momentum-resolved photoemission studies using time-of-flight momentum microscopy at a free-electron laser

Dmytro Kutnyakhov, Rui Patrick Xian, Maciej Dendzik +38

Time-resolved photoemission with ultrafast pump and probe pulses is an emerging technique with wide application potential. Real-time recording of non-equilibrium electronic process…