Luxem News

The first Annual Meeting of the COST Action “An international network for Non-linear Extreme ultraviolet to hard X-ray Techniques - NEXT” took place at IMDEA Nanociencia institute in Madrid, 8-12th July. LUXEM is a key actor of this large international collaboration. Find out more

Signal pump-probe detection from our EUV microscope via sum-frequency generation. This three-wave mixing process which occurs on a non-linear crystal when two high-intensity photon beams overlap within a few millionths of meters in space and a few millionths of billionths of seconds in time.

The "Paris-Saclay Ultrafast X-ray and Attosecond Science School" is a biannual thematic school organized by the Institute for the Sciences of Light at Paris-Saclay University, in collaboration with the "The Frontiers of Attosecond and Ultrafast X-ray Science School" in Erice, Italy. Antonio Mazzarone and Domenico Compagnini attended the School presenting posters entitled "Correlative Ultrafast EUV Microscopy and Transient Reflectivity of Functionalized Nanoparticles Supracrystals” and “Design and Implementation of in-line diagnostics for real-time ultrafast EUV ptychography”. Find out more

LUXEM participates to INFN's project LAB2GO with a Lab Showcase. LAB2GO aims to support High Schools towards the improvement of their laboratory facilities, as well as to promote UNIPV Physics Department and ongoing research activities therein.

LUXEM opens its facility to showcase laboratory & research to High School students with practical demonstrations. A wonderful opportunity to disseminate our research to young prospective students in Physics and Photonics.

Nicola Giani presented LUXEM research in two talks on EUV ultrafast and Deep Learning for Ptychography at CLEO 2024, one of the top International Conferences in Optics, Lasers and Photonics, this year in Charlotte, North Carolina (USA).

Simone Restelli talk “Ultrafast Dynamics of the Multi-Centre Spinel Co3O4 ” at ECONOS 2024 - European Conference On Non-Linear Optical Spectroscopy 2024 (Wien, A). LUXEM thanks the organizing committee for this wonderful opportunity!

Our new research article published in Structural Dynamics

The work “High-resolution ptychographic imaging at a seeded free-electron laser source using OAM beams” stems from the collaboration between DiProI at FERMI Free Electron Laser (FEL), LUXEM, and the Colorado School of Mines. For the first time, we demonstrate the feasibility of single-shot per position ptychography on a nanostructured object at a seeded FEL, using extreme ultraviolet OAM beams of different topological charge orders, generated with spiral zone plates. Find out more

Congratulations to Dr. Simone Restelli for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation entitled “Understanding functional properties of spinel oxide nanoparticles and thin films by static and dynamic experimental approaches”!