I recently gave a talk at the University of Michigan as part of the Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Seminar Series. After the talk, the MIPSE team recorded a short interview where we discussed the motivation behind this work and how high-resolution X-ray scattering can reveal temperature, structure, and dynamics in matter…
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Our latest paper, published in Nature, reports the first direct measurements of ion temperature in a superheated solid. By combining ultrafast laser heating with meV-resolution inelastic X-ray scattering, we showed that gold can remain crystalline at more than 14 times its melting temperature, far beyond theoretical limits! Link to paper
This past week, my collaborators and I wrapped up an exciting experiment at the European XFEL, where we used high-resolution meV inelastic X-ray scattering to measure temperatures inside matter heated to over 10,000 Kelvin. It’s a major step forward in our ability to probe extreme states of matter with atomic-level detail. The team included researchers…
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