EuXFEL (Hamburg): time resolved hard X-ray diffraction on 8CB while pumped by an ultrafast NIR pulse triggering off-resonance ultrafast librations – 2 shifts.
FELIX (Nijmegen): 8CB free standing polarized imaging of slow (nano- to millisecond) dynamics pumping narrow band and intense THz radiation.
SwissFEL (PSI, Villigen): time resolved hard X-ray diffraction on 8CB while pumped by THz radiation triggering off-resonance ultrafast librations – 15 shifts.
FELBE (Helmolz center, Dresden): resonant single-color THz pump-THz probe in LCs across phase transition along specific pump-LC orientations – 7 shifts.
FELIX (Nijmegen): continuation of the previous beamtime to look at the microsecond time scale – 4 shifts.
We are currently looking for Bachelor and Master students. If you are interested, feel free to contact Dr. Laura Cattaneo to get further insight into our research and to discuss possible projects.
Projects currently available:
Master: THz-Time Domain Spectroscopy (TDS) and time resolved birefringence of liquid crystals at cryogenic temperature.
Master: Implementation of alignment solutions in a recirculating and temperature controlled liquid crystal flat jet for high order harmonic generation.