Beyond crystallography: Diffractive imaging using coherent x-ray light sources

J Miao, T Ishikawa, IK Robinson, MM Murnane - Science, 2015 - science.org
X-ray crystallography has been central to the development of many fields of science over the
past century. It has now matured to a point that as long as good-quality crystals are …

The 2021 ultrafast spectroscopic probes of condensed matter roadmap

J Lloyd-Hughes, PM Oppeneer… - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In the 60 years since the invention of the laser, the scientific community has developed
numerous fields of research based on these bright, coherent light sources, including the …

Polarized phonons carry angular momentum in ultrafast demagnetization

SR Tauchert, M Volkov, D Ehberger, D Kazenwadel… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Magnetic phenomena are ubiquitous in nature and indispensable for modern science and
technology, but it is notoriously difficult to change the magnetic order of a material in a rapid …

Light-wave dynamic control of magnetism

F Siegrist, JA Gessner, M Ossiander, C Denker… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The enigmatic interplay between electronic and magnetic phenomena observed in many
early experiments and outlined in Maxwell's equations propelled the development of …

Optically induced ultrafast magnetization switching in ferromagnetic spin valves

J Igarashi, W Zhang, Q Remy, E Díaz, JX Lin… - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
The discovery of spin-transfer torque (STT) enabled the control of the magnetization
direction in magnetic devices in nanoseconds using an electrical current. Ultrashort optical …

[HTML][HTML] Spintronic sources of ultrashort terahertz electromagnetic pulses

TS Seifert, L Cheng, Z Wei, T Kampfrath, J Qi - Applied Physics Letters, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Spintronic terahertz emitters are broadband and efficient sources of terahertz radiation,
which emerged at the intersection of ultrafast spintronics and terahertz photonics. They are …

Engineered materials for all-optical helicity-dependent magnetic switching

S Mangin, M Gottwald, CH Lambert, D Steil, V Uhlíř… - Nature materials, 2014 - nature.com
The possibility of manipulating magnetic systems without applied magnetic fields have
attracted growing attention over the past fifteen years. The low-power manipulation of the …

Terahertz spin current pulses controlled by magnetic heterostructures

T Kampfrath, M Battiato, P Maldonado, G Eilers… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
In spin-based electronics, information is encoded by the spin state of electron bunches 1, 2,
3, 4. Processing this information requires the controlled transport of spin angular momentum …

Generation of bright phase-matched circularly-polarized extreme ultraviolet high harmonics

O Kfir, P Grychtol, E Turgut, R Knut, D Zusin… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Circularly-polarized extreme ultraviolet and X-ray radiation is useful for analysing the
structural, electronic and magnetic properties of materials. To date, such radiation has only …

X-ray magnetic circular dichroism—A versatile tool to study magnetism

G Van der Laan, AI Figueroa - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
An overview of different chemical complexes studied by X-ray magnetic circular dichroism
(XMCD) is presented. We intend to show to the chemistry community the possibilities of this …