Ultrafast Special Interest Group

Contact: Jin Wang, APS
Eric Dufresne, APS

Past 2012 agendas

  • Thursday January 26, 2012 at noon in conference Room 432C
    Introduction and Announcements. 

Investigation of lattice dynamics and nanoscale thermal transport in FePt/Ag heat assisted 
magnetic recording (HAMR) media films using psec time-resolved x-ray diffraction
Dr Chengjun Sun, XSD Sector 20.

  • Thursday February 16, 2012 at noon in conference Room 432C
    Introduction and Announcements. 

Young's double slit interference using a dissociating molecule
Antonio Picon Alvarez, X-ray Science Division, AMO group
    Antonio presented research published in Picon et. al. Phys. Rev. A, (2011)

  • Next meeting, Thursday March 22, 2012 at noon in conference Room 432C
    Agenda: 

Introduction and Announcements. 

Thermalization dynamics in semiconductornanocrystals, 
Richard Schaller Argonne Center of Nanomaterials (CNM).

Richard presented research published in PRL v107 177403 (2011).

  • Thursday April 19, 2012 at noon in conference Room 432C
    Agenda: 

Introduction and Announcements. 

Toward ultrafast control of complex oxides -- Case studies of BiFeO3 and VO2 thin films
Hadan Wen, X-ray Science Division