THALES - SESO® Optics for Semiconductor EUV Equipment LUXEM EUV ultrafast microscope featured in the company brochure of SESO Thales. Tailored figure error optics mark a disruptive advance in illumination function quality and stability, improving throughput in EUV ultrafast nanometrology. Find out more
The Journal of the American Chemistry Society The ultrafast formation of Jahn-Teller polarons is unraveled in spinel Co3O4 with microscopic detail. Selective charge-transfer excitation leads to a local symmetry breaking caused by the Jahn-Teller effect, which is associated with charge localization on the 3orbital at the Cobalt octahedral site, influencing deformation potential and magnetoelastic coupling of the system. This study offers an effective route towards local engineering of transition metal oxides' electronic and structural properties with ultrafast light pulses. Find out more
“Explore the behind-the-scenes of scientific successes by photographing those who build these successes” – ERN 2024 In September 2024, photographs of LUXEM Team and Research Facilities taken by the “Associazione Fotografica Città Giardino” were highlighted in the European Researchers Night exhibit at the Broletto municipality palace in Pavia. Find out more
Il Sole 24 Ore LUXEM projects ERC StG ULTRAIMAGE and ERC PoC HYPER highlighted in the Italian newspaper "Il Sole24Ore". In the article appeared on Wednesday 20th December 2023, on "Il Sole24Ore", Prof. Mancini explains relevance and breakthrough impact of the 2 ERC projects @LUXEM. Find out more
Women in Science Winners of Competitive Cariplo Foundation Calls Prof. Mancini’s and LUXEM Research highlighted in two Stories from Cariplo Foundation: “Women in Science – Cariplo Researchers” and “Winners of Cariplo Research Grants” Women in Science - Cariplo Researchers Winners of Cariplo Research Grants
Fast-moving plot How do dye-sensitised solar cells work, and what's behind the brilliant new mobile phone displays? The ultrashort X-ray pulses at SwissFEL reveal the chemical reactions that take place inside these devices and could help to make them even more efficient and cost-effective. Find out more
Ptychography – With a “P” As in “Pterodactyl” In this invited blog from DECTRIS Dr. Charles Bevis and Prof. Giulia Mancini discuss the development of Ptychographic Coherent Diffractive Imaging and the possibilities it offers. What is ptychography? How does it work? Is it worth all the hype? Find out more
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters Volume 13, Issue 14, pages 3310-3528 We provide a comprehensive atomic-scale description of the purely thermal response of lead-halide perovskites in a temperature range relevant for realistic applications. Thermal-induced changes are rationalized in terms of displacive phase transitions, which are a consequence of the phonon anharmonicity of the inorganic lattice. Find out more
ACS Editors’ Choice Nano Letters - 2016 The design and characterization of functionalized nanoparticle supracrystals require atomically resolved information on both the metallic core and the external organic ligand shell. Ultrafast small-angle electron diffraction has enabled to resolve both static ordering properties and photo-induced motions of supracrystals of alkanethiol-capped gold nanoparticles, with combined fs temporal and Å spatial resolution. Key to this advance was the unique capability to retrieve the local symmetry of the real-space objects creating an electron speckle pattern by computing angular cross-correlation functions. This method, well known in the X-rays community, has been applied to the analysis of [...]
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