Group Members

Principal Investigator:

Oleg Shpyrko, Assistant Professor Ph.D. Physics, Harvard University, 2004

Postdoctoral fellow(s):

Dr. Jyoti Mohanty, Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D. Physics, Paul Drude Institute, Humboldt University, Germany 2005

Research Topic: Jyoti is working on x-ray magnetic dichroism studies of magnetic thin films as well as magnetic and orbital domains in manganese oxides

Graduate Students:

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

Research Topic:Ash is working on development and application of novel coherent x-ray scattering techniques to studies of magnetic and electronic phases characterised by complex disorder and slow dynamics.

Yeling Dai, Graduate Student B.S. Physics, The University of Science and Technology of China, 2006

Research Topic: Yeling is working on studying structure and dynamics of nanoconfined materials, such as liquids, soft matter and nanoparticles.

Undergraduate Students:

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

Group Alumni:

Loic Jacot Descombes, visiting student, Nov 2008-April 2009
Masters Student at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
B.S. Physics, Ecole Polytechnique federale de Lausanne, Switzerland 2007
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)
• Kyle Alvine (NIST)
• 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)
• 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 (Imaging and Microscopy Group, APS, Argonne)
• Paul Zschack (Sector 33/34, 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)