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most citedThermomechanical response of thickly tamped targets and diamond anvil cells under pulsed hard x-ray irradiation

27 citations · 43 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Nanosecond timescale plasticity in shock-compressed polycrystalline MgO: evidence for transition in mechanism above 100 GPa

A. Chakraborti, H. Ginestet, F. Bertrand +80

The mechanical properties of ceramics under extreme conditions directly impact applications ranging from shielding spacecrafts, designing plasma facing materials in nuclear fusion…

physics.geo-ph2026

Iron spin crossover in ferropericlase and its effect on lower-mantle thermal conductivity

Alexander F. Goncharov, Irina Chuvashova, Eric Edmund +29

Thermal conductivity of Earths lower mantle controls heat transfer across the core-mantle boundary (CMB) and strongly influences mantle convection. We report direct measurements of…

physics.plasm-ph2026

XFEL Imaging Techniques for High Energy Density and Inertial Fusion Energy Research at HED-HiBEF

Alejandro Laso Garcia, Mikhail Mishchenko, Victorien Bouffetier +53

The imaging platform developed at the High Energy Density - Helmholtz International Beamline for Extreme Fields (HED-HiBEF) instrument at the European XFEL and its applications to…

physics.plasm-ph2025★ 2 cited

A Momentum-Resolved X-ray Thomson Scattering Benchmark of Electronic-Response Models in Warm Dense Aluminium

Dmitrii S. Bespalov, Ulf Zastrau, Zhandos A. Moldabekov +58

The robust diagnosis of conditions generated in warm dense matter (WDM) experiments remains a persistent challenge. Here we describe the measurement of shock-compressed aluminium a…

physics.app-ph2025

X-ray thermal diffuse scattering as a texture-robust temperature diagnostic for dynamically compressed solids

P. G. Heighway, D. J. Peake, T. Stevens +119

We present a model of x-ray thermal diffuse scattering (TDS) from a cubic polycrystal with an arbitrary crystallographic texture, based on the classic approach of Warren. We compar…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Observation of Body-Centered Cubic Iron above 200 Gigapascals

Zuzana Konopkova, Eric Edmund, Orianna B Ball +34

The crystallographic structure of iron under extreme conditions is a key benchmark for cutting-edge experimental and numerical methods. Moreover, it plays a crucial role in underst…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

High-Quality Ultra-Fast Total Scattering and Pair Distribution Function Data using an X-ray Free Electron Laser

Adam F. Sapnik, Philip A. Chater, Dean S. Keeble +48

High-quality total scattering data, a key tool for understanding atomic-scale structure in disordered materials, require stable instrumentation and access to high momentum transfer…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Strong geometry dependence of the X-ray Thomson Scattering Spectrum in single crystal silicon

Thomas Gawne, Zhandos A. Moldabekov, Oliver S. Humphries +17

We report on results from an experiment at the European XFEL where we measured the x-ray Thomson scattering (XRTS) spectrum of single crystal silicon with ultrahigh resolution. Com…

physics.plasm-ph2025

Shake-off in XFEL heated solid density plasma

G. O. Williams, L. Ansia, M. Makita +25

In atoms undergoing ionisation, an abrupt re-arrangement of free and bound electrons can lead to the ejection of another bound electron (shake-off). The spectroscopic signatures of…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Femtosecond temperature measurements of laser-shocked copper deduced from the intensity of the x-ray thermal diffuse scattering

J. S. Wark, D. J. Peake, T. Stevens +122

We present 50-fs, single-shot measurements of the x-ray thermal diffuse scattering (TDS) from copper foils that have been shocked via nanosecond laser-ablation up to pressures abov…

physics.plasm-ph2024

Formation of high-aspect-ratio nanocavity in LiF crystal using a femtosecond of x-ray FEL pulse

Sergey S. Makarov, Sergey A. Grigoryev, Vasily V. Zhakhovsky +30

Sub-picosecond optical laser processing of metals is actively utilized for modification of a heated surface layer. But for deeper modification of different materials a laser in the…

physics.plasm-ph2024

Effects of Mosaic Crystal Instrument Functions on X-ray Thomson Scattering Diagnostics

Thomas Gawne, Hannah Bellenbaum, Luke B. Fletcher +36

Mosaic crystals, with their high integrated reflectivities, are widely-employed in spectrometers used to diagnose high energy density systems. X-ray Thomson scattering (XRTS) has e…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

X-ray induced grain boundary formation and grain rotation in Bi2Se3

Kento Katagiri, Bernard Kozioziemski, Eric Folsom +24

Optimizing grain boundary characteristics in polycrystalline materials can improve their properties. Many processing methods have been developed for grain boundary manipulation, in…

physics.plasm-ph2024★ 1 cited

Ultrahigh Resolution X-ray Thomson Scattering Measurements at the European XFEL

Thomas Gawne, Zhandos A. Moldabekov, Oliver S. Humphries +18

Using a novel ultrahigh resolution (eV) setup to measure electronic features in x-ray Thomson scattering (XRTS) experiments at the European XFEL in Germany, we have…

physics.plasm-ph2024

Cylindrical compression of thin wires by irradiation with a Joule-class short pulse laser

Alejandro Laso Garcia, Long Yang, Victorien Bouffetier +14

Equation of state measurements at Jovian or stellar conditions are currently conducted by dynamic shock compression driven by multi-kilojoule multi-beam nanosecond-duration lasers.…

physics.plasm-ph2023★ 11 cited

Speed of sound in methane under conditions of planetary interiors

Thomas G. White, Hannah Poole, Emma E. McBride +32

We present direct observations of acoustic waves in warm dense matter. We analyze wave-number- and energy-resolved x-ray spectra taken from warm dense methane created by laser heat…

physics.ins-det2018★ 1 cited

Setup for meV-resolution inelastic X-ray scattering measurements at the Matter in Extreme Conditions Endstation at the LCLS

E. E. McBride, T. G. White, A. Descamps +24

We describe a setup for performing inelastic X-ray scattering measurements at the Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC) endstation of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). This tech…

cond-mat.other2018★ 27 cited

Thermomechanical response of thickly tamped targets and diamond anvil cells under pulsed hard x-ray irradiation

J. Meza-Galvez, N. Gomez-Perez, A. Marshall +6

In the laboratory study of extreme conditions of temperature and density, the exposure of matter to high intensity radiation sources has been of central importance. Here we interro…