Group Members

Principal Investigator:

Prof. Oleg Shpyrko

Oleg Shpyrko Assistant Professor, Department of Physics University of California San Diego Ph.D. 2004, Physics, Harvard University Research Group Webpage: oleg.ucsd.edu Ph.D. Physics, Harvard University, 2004 Office: Mayer Hall Addition 3681 (Where is it?) Phone (Google Voice, preferred): 858-952-1248 Phone (Office): 858-534-3066

Postdoctoral fellow(s):

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:

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.
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.
	Sebastian Dietze, Graduate Student B.S. Physics, U Texas Austin 2008 Research Topic: Magnetic nanostructures.

Undergraduate Students:

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

Group Alumni:

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)