I’m excited to share that I’m leading a new six-institution program, Diagnostics for Extreme-LIGHT, to build the measurement science the multi-petawatt laser era demands. High-intensity laser facilities are coming online around the world, including ZEUS in the U.S., CoReLS in South Korea, Vulcan 2020 in the U.K., Apollon in France, the Extreme Light Infrastructure, and…
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Earlier this year, while on sabbatical at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, I gave a lecture on High Resolution X-ray Scattering as part of the HEDS Seminar Series
We have just produced a new 12-page ebook introducing the science of high energy density matter. Check out the ebook here!
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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