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Group Photo, June 8, 2009. L-to-R: Michael Folkerts, Sebastian Dietze, Lluvia Rodriguez, Andrew McLeod, Ash Tripathi, Yeling Dai, Oleg Shpyrko. Not pictured: Dr. Jyoti Mohanty, Anache Bandari, Sam Stanwyck, Sarah Garcia

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Principal Investigator:

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Prof. Oleg Shpyrko
Oleg Shpyrko
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics

University of California San Diego
Ph.D. 2004, Physics, Harvard University

Ph.D. Physics, Harvard University, 2004

  • Office: Mayer Hall 3210 (Where is it?)
  • Phone (Google Voice, preferred): 858-952-1248
  • Phone (Office): 858-534-3066

Postdoctoral fellow(s):

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Dr. Jyoti Mohanty
Dr. Jyoti Mohanty, Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D. Physics, Paul Drude Institute, Humboldt University, Germany 2005

Research Topic: X-ray magnetic dichroism studies of magnetic thin films, magnetic and orbital domains in manganese oxides, charge density wave systems.

Graduate Students:

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Ash Tripathi
Ash Tripathi, Graduate Student
B.S. Electrical Engineering, U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign 2005
M.S. Physics, UC San Diego 2007

Research Topic: Novel coherent x-ray imaging techniques, ptychographic iterative engine, lens-less imaging. Nanodiffraction studies of metal-insulator transition.
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Yeling Dai
Yeling Dai, Graduate Student
B.S. Physics, The University of Science and Technology of China, 2006
Research Topic: Dynamics of nanoconfined materials, Liquid Surface Scattering.
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Sebastian Dietze
Sebastian Dietze, Graduate Student
B.S. Physics, U Texas Austin 2008

Research Topic: Magnetic nanostructures.

Undergraduate Students:

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Michael Folkerts
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Sarah Garcia
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Andrew McLeod
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LLuvia Rodriguez
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Sam Stanwyck
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Anache Bandari
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Magnus Heinz
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Kevin Duggento

Group Alumni:

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Loic Jacot Dewcombes
Loic Jacot Descombes, visiting student, Nov 2008-April 2009

Masters Student at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Masters Thesis: Dynamic Light Scattering studies of fluid microdynamics (PDF)
B.S. Physics, Ecole Polytechnique federale de Lausanne, Switzerland 2007
Research Topic: Light Scattering Studies of micro- and nano-particles.
Current Whereabouts: ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Collaborators:

  • Dmitri Basov (UCSD)
  • Eric Fullerton (UCSD)
  • Ivan Schuller (UCSD)
  • Sunny Sinha (UCSD)
  • Brian Maple (UCSD)
  • Peter Pershan (Harvard)
  • Eric Isaacs (U. Chicago, Argonne National Lab)
  • Kyle Alvine (Pacific Northwest National Lab)
  • Moshe Deutsch (Bar Ilan U., Israel)
  • Tom Rosenbaum (U Chicago)
  • Patrick Huber (Saarland U., Germany)
  • Ben Ocko (Brookhaven)
  • Masa Fukuto (Brookhaven)
  • Oleg Gang (Brookhaven)
  • Elaine DiMasi (Brookhaven)
  • Gabe Aeppli (UC London)
  • Thomas Russell (UMass)
  • Steve Kevan (U. Oregon)
  • Sujoy Roy (ALS, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
  • John Mitchell (Argonne)
  • Alec Sandy, Michael Sprung, Suresh Narayanan (Sector 8, APS, Argonne)
  • Jeff Elam and Michael Pellin (MSD&ES, Argonne)
  • Xiao Min Lin (CNM, Argonne)
  • Martin Holt and Jorg Maser (X-ray Nanoprobe, CNM, Argonne)
  • Binhua Lin, Mati Meron (CARS, U. Chicago)
  • Ivan Kuzmenko, Thomas Gog (Sector 9, APS, Argonne)
  • Zahir Islam, Jonathan Lang (Sector 4, APS, Argonne)
  • Ross Harder, Ian McNulty, Zhonghou Cai (APS, Argonne)
  • Paul Zschack (APS, Argonne)
  • Alexei Grigoriev, Paul Evans (U. Wisconsin, Madison)

Our group currently has several openings at postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate student level.

Contact Oleg Shpyrko for more information

Examples of Research Directions:

  • Nanoscale Dynamics using X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy
  • Coherent X-ray Microscopy
  • Nanoconfined liquids
  • Atomic Structure of Liquid-Solid and Liquid-Vapor Interfaces
  • Mesoscale phase separation in electronic and magnetic materials
  • Search for Novel Superconducting Materials
  • Metallic Glasses and Liquids


List of relevant references:

O. G. Shpyrko et al., "Direct measurement of antiferromagnetic domain fluctuations" Nature 447, 68 (2007)

R. Jaramillo et al., "Microscopic and Macroscopic Signatures of Antiferromagnetic Domains" Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 117206 (2007) O. G. Shpyrko et al., "Surface Crystallization in a Liquid AuSi Alloy" Science 313, 77 (2006)

K. J. Alvine, O. G. Shpyrko et al., "Capillary filling of anodized alumina nanopore arrays" Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 175503 (2006)

E. D. Isaacs, "Microscopy: X-ray nanovision", Nature 442, 35 (2006)

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