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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.

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!

On March 8th, 2024, Prof. Mancini was a panelist at the conference “Fix the leaky pipeline: experiences of women in science” sponsored by Fondazione Cariplo’s NanoFast project. A great opportunity to reflect about the meaning of scientific method, STEM research, gender equality.

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Prof. Giulia Fulvia Mancini committee member and chair of the session “Novel Schemes for Ultrashort Pulses – HTu3B” at the “High-Intensity Lasers and High- Field Phenomena” (HILAS2024). Congratulations to Dr. Carmelo Grova for his presentation of “A Compact Beamline for High-Throughput, Multiscale, Ultrafast Extreme Ultraviolet Ptychography”!

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Prof. Giulia Fulvia Mancini, awardee of the Junior Prize 2020 entitled to Prof. Mildred Dresselhaus, joins the pool of awardees at CUI Hamburg for the 10 year Jubilee and presents a hybrid talk entitled: “Multiscale Ultrafast Microscopy across X-ray tabletop and facility-scale sources & Imposter Syndrome”.

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Professor Giulia Fulvia Mancini has been invited by Dr. Laura Cattaneo as speaker within the Bothe Colloquium series at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics – Pfeiffer division. A wonderful opportunity to discuss common collaborative research projects with the partners of the Ultrafast Liquid Crystal Dynamics(ULCD) group.

LUXEM projects ERC StG ULTRAIMAGE and ERC PoC HYPER highlighted in the Italian newspaper “Il Sole24Ore”. In the article appeared on Wednesday 20^th December 2023, on “Il Sole24Ore”, Prof. Mancini explains relevance and breakthrough impact of the 2 ERC projects @LUXEM. ERC StG ULTRAIMAGE aims to unravel the rapid processes occurring in functional nanomaterials relevant to optoelectronics, photovoltaics, and biomedical devices, when hit by short light pulses. ERC PoC HYPER expands the innovative technology for ultrafast microscopy across length scales, implemented within ULTRAIMAGE, and makes it accessible to the public.

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The “Incontri di Fisica Moderna” organized by the Physics Department, University of Pavia, are open Bachelor and Master students. LUXEM Team members contribute with a talk entitled: “Lasers and attoseconds”.

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Wavemix – the seed of the COST ACTION CA22148 “NEXT: An international network for Non-linear Extreme Ultraviolet to hard X-ray techniques” was reviewed by editors of Communication Physics – Springer Nature.

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Professor Giulia Fulvia Mancini has been invited to the Colorado School of Mines as a speaker within the PhD Colloquia Series in Physics to discuss recent advances in pulsed X-ray sources and their applications for dynamical imaging.

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Professor Giulia Fulvia Mancini presented recent findings on “Charge, lattice and spin interplay in the ultrafast response of photoexcited spinel Co₃0₄” as invited speaker at NanoGe International Conference on Emerging Light Emitting Materials (EMLEM23).

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Delighted to have hosted Dr. Liam Weiner from KMLabs at LUXEM, an excellent opportunity to develop and improve new ideas with our R&I collaborators.

The Action CA22148 NEXT: “An international network for Non-linear Extreme Ultraviolet to hard X-ray techniques” is awarded funded by COST – European Cooperation in Science & Technology. This international consortium is aimed to create the first concerted experimental and theoretical effort aimed at implementing EUV/X-ray non-linear spectroscopy at tabletop HHG and XFEL sources. Prof. Mancini was elected Vice-Chair of this Action.

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Scientific dissemination event organized by INFN at the Castello Visconteo in Pavia, it fostered communication with the public, encouraging discovery, discussions, and experiments. A fantastic way to promote and involve young people in the world of research!

Discussion on new frontiers in nanoscopy for next generation smart devices at the Symposium “Innovative strategies for the study of advanced and sustainable nano-bio materials”

Dr. Christian-Y. Côté visits LUXEM to exchange ideas with the LUXEM Team in the framework of the ERC-StG ULTRAIMAGE and PoC HYPER projects.

Prof. Mancini presents “Multi-purpose Ultrafast Microscopy with a Compact High-Harmonic Source” at the 4th AttoChem Annual Meeting.

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Prof. Mancini presents “Multi-purpose Ultrafast Microscopy with a Compact High-Harmonic Source” at the 7th International Symposium on Intense Field, Short Wavelength Atomic and Molecular Processes.

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Joint project DynaMAT “Ultrafast dynamics in next generation sustainable martials” between LUXEM (UNIPV) and Femtoscopy (La Sapienza) received funding from the Italian Ministry of University and Research

Prof. Giulia Fulvia Mancini project HYPER received funding from the European Research Council to expand impact and purpose of the ERC StG project ULTRAIMAGE.

The Doctoral School in Physics at UNIPV organized a professional development course on soft-skills, aimed to strengthen the PhD candidates in physics capabilities in CV and motivation letter drafting, scientific articles & grant writing. Lecturers: Giulia Fulvia Mancini and Giacomo Prando.

LUXEM Team work for Beamtime 3279: “Mapping the excitation-specific electron, spin and lattice dynamics in Spinel Co3O4 thin film with femtosecond non-resonant emission spectroscopy and diffraction” at FXE, European Free Electron Laser in Hamburg.

Dr. Cannelli MSCA project METRICS is awarded funding from the HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01 Action. This fellowship fosters cross-disciplinary high-impact research through a collaborative project across CFEL-ATTO group (Germany), FERMI (Italy) and Class 5 (Germany). The work will focus on the development and application of advanced X-ray spectroscopic techniques for the study of molecular clusters in metalloproteins. Congratulations Oliviero!

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The SMART-X Student Chapter invites Prof. Mancini as panelist of a roundtable celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in STEM!

Prof. Giulia Fulvia Mancini has been elected member of the User Organization Executive Committee of the European Free Electron Laser (EXFEL). The purpose of the Committee is to provide an organized framework for discussion between users and the EXFEL board, in particular to provide feedback to management in order to improve conditions for users running experiments and to help broaden the user community. The Executive Board of the European XFEL User Organization is composed of 6 members, with one representative from each of the EXFEL tool user communities (FXE, SPB/SFX, MID, HED, SCS and SQS) and serves for a term of 3 years.

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Mr. Carmelo Grova and Prof. Giulia Fulvia Mancini join as guests Prof. J. Rouxel’s beamtime on helical dichroism at the CSAXS beamline, Paul Scherrer Institut.

The project PiXiE aims to combine correlative ultrafast X-ray and cryo-electron microscopy to tailor intra- and inter-structural interactions in hybrid nanoparticle superlattices.

The project will be deployed at LUXEM, University of Pavia, and it shall last 60 months.

Prof. Mancini participates in Sumo Science – an opportunity for the world of research and the world of school to meet, which develops through a challenge in 5 rounds of questions and answers: on the dohyō, led by a moderator, two researchers or researchers working in different research fields.

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Prof. Giulia Mancini invited speaker at MAT- SUS #NANOMAT – Advances on the Understanding and Synthesis of Nanomaterials for Photocatalysis and Optoelectronics.

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Check out the new blog from DECTRIS about “Emerging possibilities in Ptychography” written in collaboration with Dr. Bevis and Prof. Mancini @LUXEM

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Research article published in Optica

Research article published in Nature Photonics

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Dr. Charles Bevis and Dr. Oliviero Cannelli contribute to UP2022 with the talk “Decoupled Structural Responses upon Light and Thermal Functional Activation in CsPbBr3 Perovskites” and the posters “Multi-wavelength Ultrafast Ptychography: A Flexible Beamline with a Compact High Harmonic Source” and “Visualization of the Multi-Center Ultrafast Response in Photoexcited Spinel Co3O4”

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Prof. Giulia Mancini receives the ICO/IUPAP Young Scientist Medal in Optics from Prof. Dr. Humberto Michinel, Secretary of the International Commission for Optics, at the 5^th International Conference on Application of Optics and Photonics, PT.

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Carmelo Grova attends the Ultrafast X-Ray Summer School 2022 at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Menlo Park, California, USA
presenting the poster “Element Sensitive Probing of Photoinduced Polaronic Distortions in Inorganic Lead Halide Perovskites”

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Prof. Daniel Adams and Mr. Jonathan Barolak perform collaborative research at LUXEM in Pavia for 2 weeks. During their stay, Prof. Daniel Adams gives the lecture “Advanced Computational Metrologies: Measuring the Shape of Ultrashort Pulses of Light”

Prof. Giulia Mancini invited speaker at the Lake Como School of Advanced Studies, Italy.

Prof. Giulia Mancini invited speaker at the event Looking4, for the 30th Anniversary of Cariplo Foundation.

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Prof. Giulia Mancini invited speaker at the Multiphoton Processes Gordon Research Conference, USA.

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Prof. Giulia Mancini invited speaker at the International Conference on Molecular Ultrafast Science and Technology – MUST 2022, CH.

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Dr. Oliviero Cannelli has been awarded the SAIS Prize 2022 for the best PhD thesis in the field of science, technology, engineering and math, for the application of innovative experimental methods for the study of light-matter interaction using ultrafast X-ray pulses. Oliviero received his PhD at EPFL in October 2021 under the supervision of Prof.
Majed Chergui and Prof. Giulia Fulvia Mancini.

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To address “Hot topics in ultrafast science”, LUXEM organized 3 guest lectures from internationally recognized experts in:

• Ultrafast Electron Microscopy – Dr. Gianmaria Vanacore, Univerista’ di Milano Bicocca
• Ultrafast Spectroscopy – Dr. Laura Cattaneo, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik – Heidelberg
• Ultrafast Science at Free-Electron Lasers and synchrotrons – Dr. Camila Bacellar – SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut

The Ultrafast Laser system and EUV source is shipped and installed in our Lab in Pavia!

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.

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The “Incontri di Fisica Moderna” organized by the Physics Department, University of Pavia, are open Bachelor and Master students. Giulia Mancini contributes with a talk entitled: “Ultrafast lasers: new laboratory-scale synchrotrons”.

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Dr. Bevis MSCA project DECIPHER is awarded funding from the HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01-01 Action. Fostering excellence in research & innovation, this prestigious recognition from the EU will enable Dr. Bevis to work in a joint collaboration across LUXEM (Italy), LUMES (Switzerland) and DrX Works (The Netherlands) toward advances in ultrafast electron imaging.

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Onsite training on LUXEM’s Pantheon system at KMLabs prior to shipment to Pavia!

Prof. Giulia Fulvia Mancini and Dr. Charles Bevis join a second beamtime in ultrafast imaging science at the DiProI beamline, FERMI.

Giulia Fulvia Mancini wins the 2021 Young Scientist Prize in Optics for her “contributions to imaging and scattering of nanostructured materials using high- harmonic soft X-ray sources and research on extreme ultraviolet imaging”.

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The Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) welcomed LUXEM graduate students C. Grova and S. Restelli for Beamtime LACUS002824 funded by LASERLAB EUROPE.

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Optical Monolithic Tables are delivered and installed in the Lab while infrastructure upgrades progress to host the new ultrafast laser system!

Dr. Charles Bevis, PostDoc at LUXEM, joins the DiProI@FERMI Team for Beamtime in imaging science.

LUXEM welcomes Carmelo Grova, Ph.D. candidate in Physics, with the first official group event.

Dr. Oliviero Cannelli has defended his thesis entitled “Photo- and thermally-induced electronic and structural dynamics in perovskites and transition metal oxides” as the result of his research activity at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne with Prof. Majed Chergui (LSU/LACUS) and Prof. Giulia Mancini (now LUXEM, UniPv).

The Stati Generali are for Regione Lombardia one of the main moments of confrontation with its stakeholders – Companies, Universities, Technological Clusters, Research Bodies, etc. – on the new frontiers of research and innovation and on regional development strategies on the subject.

Prof. Mancini (UniPv), Prof. Saccomandi (Polimi), and Prof. Bollati (Unimib), as ERC Grant-winning researchers at Lombardy universities, converse with the Councilor for Education, University, Research, Innovation and Simplification, Fabrizio Sala, at the presence of the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research, Prof. Maria Cristina Messa.

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The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella at the inauguration of the Academic Year 2021-2022 of the University of Pavia, on the occasion of the 660^th anniversary of the University.

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Giulia Mancini led a joint experiment at FXE (local contact Frederico Lima) of her own team and Prof. Majed Chergui’s team from EPFL in late August.

At FXE, it was possible to perform simultaneously time-resolved X-ray emission spectroscopy on a spinel Co₃o₄ 27nm thin film, unraveling crucial structural and electronic information about relaxation cascade and clarifying the involvement of Co(II) and Co(III) centers are in the charge carrier dynamics.

Light activation of lead-halide perovskites induces polaronic lattice distortions, here quantified with atomic-level precision. Electron–phonon coupling drives the crystal changes, which are unlocked upon charge-carrier recombination and in the absence of thermal effects. This study clarifies the structure–property relationships in out-of-equilibrium conditions, underpinning the developments of perovskite-based devices. Image credit: Balázs Őrley.

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Given her scientific track-record and in recognition of the recently awarded European Research Council Starting Grant (ERC StG 2019), Dr. Giulia Fulvia Mancini was named Associate Professors in Physics by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR).

Prof. Mancini will join the Department of Physics at the University of Pavia, Italy.

Cariplo Foundation’s highlight of Prof. Mancini’s research group activity, supported by the FC Grant 2020-2544 – NanoFast

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Dr. Mancini received the prestigious international award “Mildred Dresselhaus Guest Junior Professorship Program 2020” from the Ultrafast Imaging Center (CUI) of Hamburg for “excellent scientific merits”.

Each year, this award is given to a successful Senior Scientist, and to a Junior Scientist with high potential. Based on a selective competition, CUI established the visiting professorship program, to which Mildred Dresselhaus of the MIT Physics Department gave her name. The program provides excellent research conditions to enable the researcher to work at CUI for a period of between 2 and 6 months, and to serve as a role model for young women in the natural sciences. The program also makes it possible to attract internationally renowned researchers to Hamburg and to create new opportunities for cooperation and collaboration.

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