The Power of Ultrafast X‑Rays for Materials Science

Sunday, February 17, 2013
Room 306 (Hynes Convention Center)
Stefan Mathias , University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Few-femtosecond and attosecond X-Ray pulses obtained from high order harmonic generation can be used to extract element-specific demagnetization dynamics and hysterisis loops for compound transition metal materials,thus probing fundamental questions in magnetism.