Beamtime 20244077 at DiProI – FERMI Free Electron Laser
Delighted with the outcome of the collaborative beamtime 20244077 between LUXEM and DiProI Teams at the FERMI Free Electron Laser. The beamtime, which took place on 21-25 September in Trieste (IT), focused on XUV ptychographic measurements with orbital angular momentum beams for imaging dynamics in metallic nanostructures.
LUXEM stand “Lasers, diffraction & images” at the European Researchers Night 2025
LUXEM is grateful to SHARPER (SHAring Researchers’ Passion for Education and Rights, EU) for including our stand “LASER, diffrazione, immagini” at the European Researchers’ Night (ERN), held on September 26th 2025 at the University of Pavia. ERN aims to engage citizens of all ages in discovering the researcher’s profession and the crucial role researchers play in shaping the future of our society. The event is part of the SHARPER project, funded by the European Commission under the European Researchers’ Night projects – Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions. GA 101162370.
Antonio Mazzarone speaker at the 2025 Optica Imaging Congress
The 2025 Optica Imaging Congress [Seattle, USA, 18-21 August 2025] addresses all aspects of 2-D and 3-D image acquisition, processing and display, imaging through scattering media and turbulence and the application of machine learning to image processing. Antonio Mazzarone presented his current PHD thesis work with a talk entitled: “Focusing Delivery Schemes: a Comparative Analysis for Extreme UltraViolet Ultrafast Tabletop Ptychography”. We thank the organizers of the Session “Super-Resolved Imaging and Ptychography” withing the Computational Optical Sennsing and Imaging (COSI) Meeting for this wonderful opportunity.
Advancements in High-Resolution Imaging using Next-Generation Light Sources Conference “AHRI 2025”
The “Advancements in High-Resolution Imaging Using Next-Generation Light Sources” symposium aims to foster an in-depth discussion among internationally recognized experts in the field, exploring the potential of the FEL facility to drive new research directions in imaging of structure and transient states of condensed matter, soft matter, and low-density matter. Prof. Mancini was invited speaker, with a talk entitled “Structured Beams and Focusing Delivery Schemes: a Comparative Analysis for Extreme UltraViolet Ultrafast Tabletop Ptychography”. Antonio Mazzarone presented the poster “Focusing Delivery Schemes: a Comparative Analysis for Extreme UltraViolet Ultrafast Tabletop Ptychography”.
Dr. Claudia Schrama speaker at the NEXT COST Annual Meeting 2025
The annual meeting of COST Action ‘NEXT’, of which Prof. Mancini is Vice-chair, organizer, and speaker, took place at the Institute of Physics of Zagreb (HR), on July 14-18, 2025. During the workshop, whose aim was to promote the discussion of novel approaches ultrafast non-linear EUV/X-rays methods, Claudia Schrama presented a talk entitled “Ultrafast ptychographic imaging of order-disorder correlations in hybrid nanoparticle topologies”.
Beamtime at DiProI FERMI Free Electron Laser and FISMAT 2025
Prof. Mancini and Antonio Mazzarone acknowledge Flavio Capotondi and the DiProI team for collaborative experiments at the in-house beamtime on July 5-7, 2025. On July 7-8 2025 Prof. Mancini attended the FISMAT 2025 – CNISM symposium: “From ultrafast magnetism to quantum materials: new insights with new instruments”, of which she was organizer and chair.
SPICE workshop “Characterization and control of quantum materials with optical vortex beams”
The SPICE workshop “Characterization and control of quantum materials with optical vortex beams” took place in Ingelheim (D) 10-12 June 2025. Prof. Mancini served as main organizer & chair. Antonio Mazzarone presented a poster titled “Focusing Delivery Schemes: a Comparative Analysis for Extreme UltraViolet Ultrafast Tabletop Ptychography”.
ERC Days @Unina 2025
This ERC in Italy event took place in Naples on May 22-23 at the University of Naples Federico II. Prof. Mancini joined to discuss ERC projects as panelist, learn from peers and share mentorship tips & tricks with young applicants.
UniPaviaExperience Lab Tour
Also this year, LUXEM opens its facilities LUXEM 1 and LUXEM 2 to show research aims &activities to High School students with practical demonstrations! A special thanks to Federico Bertelli and Domenico Compagnini for participating to the activities that took place on Saturday May 17, 2025!
Nicola Giani permanent staff at LUXEM
Nicola Giani, here working on the Ultrafast Laser System maintenance with KMLabs Engineers, has obtained a permanent appointment as Laboratory Engineer at LUXEM. Congratulations to him for this achievement, and to the University of Pavia for supporting LUXEM research.
Claudia Schrama at EPFL for collaborative experiments at LACUS
In May 2025, Claudia spent a week at LACUS where she performed collaborative experiments with the LUMES team on Ultrafast Electron Diffraction. We thank Prof. Carbone and his group for their collaboration on our joint EU research projects.
Antonio Mazzarone and Claudia Schrama at the International school “The Frontiers of Attosecond and Ultrafast X-ray Science”
The purpose of the school was to provide young researchers involved within the Action with training on current developments on attosecond experiments. In particular: (i) attosecond science and technology, devoted to the generation and application of attosecond pulses to the investigation of electronic dynamics in atoms, molecules, nanostructures and condensed phases; (ii) fundamentals, methods and applications of free electron lasers in atomic and molecular science. This School hosted Nobel Prize winners Pierre Agostini and Anne L’Huillier.
At the conference, Antonio Mazzarone presented a poster titled: “Focusing Delivery Schemes: a Comparative Analysis for Extreme UltraViolet Ultrafast Tabletop Ptychography”. Claudia Schrama presented a poster titled: “Ultrafast Ptychographic Imaging of Order-Disorder Correlations in Hybrid Nanoparticle Topologies”. We congratulate Antonio for winning the travel grant to attended the School, which took place in Erice (Italy), on April 7-13, 2025!
Domenico Compagnini obtains his M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Pavia, and new M.Sc. students join LUXEM!
LUXEM is pleased to announce that Domenico successfully defended his M.SC. thesis titled: “Spectrometer design for real-time, ultrafast, extreme ultraviolet ptychography”, and welcomes two new Master students Federico Bertelli and Giovanni Luce Ignaccolo!
LUXEM 2 official opening
We are delighted to announce the opening of our second research facility LUXEM 2 at the Department of Physics of the University of Pavia. The new laboratory’s aim is two-fold: (i) prototyping new technology for out-of-equilibrium studies of soft-condensed matter; (ii) fostering the development of young researchers competences, with set-ups of Atomic Force Microscopy, Optical Microscopy, Fourier Optics. The laboratory is also equipped with an ultrafast laser oscillator for training on mode-locking and ultrafast laser physics. LUXEM thanks the ERC HYPER PoC, Fondazione Cariplo’s NanoFast, and the University of Pavia for the synergistic effort.
ERC in Italy 2025
ERCinItaly APS announces its third annual event, coinciding with the association’s annual assembly. The event will be held at the CNR On February 13-14 2025, in Rome, to facilitate in-person participation from across the country.
Fondazione Cariplo’s photo shooting at LUXEM
We are delighted and grateful to Fondazione Cariplo for choosing LUXEM as subject of photo shoots aimed to represent its projects and funding platforms on the territory.
LUXEM Christmas celebration
Merry Christmas from the LUXEM Team & Collaborators!
Antonio Mazzarone attending NETLINCS workshop at FERMI Trieste
We are grateful to COST Action NEXT CA22148, FERMI Elettra, and PiXiE FARE MUR, for supporting Antonio in attending the “New trends in Linear and Non-linear spectroscopic Chirality Studies” conference that took place in Trieste on December 3-4 2024. Antonio presented LUXEM research with the poster “Ultrafast Ptychographic Imaging of Order-Disorder Correlations in Hybrid Nanoparticle Topologies”.
NEXT COST Action CA22148 Newsletter published
The Newsletter from NEXT: “An international network for Non-linear Extreme ultraviolet to hard X-ray Techniques” reports the progress from the 1st year of the COST Action and the Agenda for the new grant period.
Antonio Mazzarone obtains his M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Pavia
Congratulations to Antonio Mazzarone for successfully defending his M.Sc. dissertation entitled “Transient Absorption Spectroscopy of ligand-coated CsPbBr3 nanoparticle supracrystals”!
