2023
- Welcome to new post-docs Claudia Gollner, Sheikh Rubaiat Ul Haque, and Sharon Philip, and to new graduate students Yuejun Shen and Leah Narun!
- Group hike, this time from the ocean to the top of Mount Tamalpais. 15 miles, 3000ft elevation gain, last four miles hiking in the dark! Photo1 Photo2 Photo3
2022
- Congrats to Aditya Sood who will start as an assistant professor at Princeton in January 2023
- Congratulations to Duan Luo who has moved on to a new professorship at the Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences!
- Anudeep Mangu wins the Joe Wong Poster award at the 2022 LCLS/SSRL Users meeting
- Anudeep Mangu wins the JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) award from the Stanford School of Engineering!
- Congratulations to Aditya Sood, winner of the 2022 MRS Postdoctoral Award, for "pioneering correlated dynamic structure and transport studies, and the discovery of a new electrically-triggered metastable phase in an operating device.”
- Anudeep Mangu wins student presentation award at the 33rd Fundamental Physics of Ferroelectrics Conference for his talk "Dynamics of an optically-induced phase transformation in ferroelectric superlattices probed by x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy." Link.
2021
- Annual group hike, this time to Post Summit in Big Sur. Photo1, Photo2, Photo3, Photo4.
- Aditya Sood wins the 2021 LCLS Young Investigator Award for his work on uncovering electrically driven phase transitions using ultrafast operando diffraction. Link
- Some truly exciting experiments at the SLAC UED facility probing structural dynamics in Li-intercalated WTe2. Photo. (see diffraction images in background!)
- Welcome to new post-doc Jiaojian Shi!
- Welcome to new post-doc Tom Hopper, who joins our group as a winner of the TomKat Postdoctoral Fellowship.
- First group party in a long time! (June 16, 2021) Photo
- Wishing Jun Xiao best of luck as he starts an assistant professorship at the University of Wisconsin.
- Philipp Muscher's paper reporting on the discovery of a new lithium-intercalated phase of WTe2 with applications to dynamic electrochemical actuators to appear in Advanced Materials.
- Congrats to Aditya Sood for his paper on field-driven transient phases in VO2 to appear soon in Science!
- Congrats to Marc Zajac after successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis - best of luck in new position at Argonne National Lab!
- Burak Guzelturk's paper probing ultrafast surface distortions in core-shell quantum dots appears in Nature Communications.
- Burak Guzelturk's paper on dynamic polaronic distortions in the hybrid perovskites published in Nature Materials.
2020
- Congratulations to Clara Nyby and Aditya Sood on their cover article in Advanced Functional Materials showing a new way of probing phonon transport across interfaces in 2D materials.
- Congratulations to Jun Xiao on his Nature Physics paper on a new type of Berry curvature mediated memory!
- Philipp Muscher named M&M (Microscopy and Microanalysis) 2020 Student Award receipient.
2019
- Aditya Sood named Joe Wong Outstanding Poster Award winner at the SSRL User's Meeting for his poster "Time-resolved dynamics of the electrically-triggered phase transition in VO2 probed using MeV-UED"
2018
- Congrats to Burak Guzelturk for winning the Chem Symposium Poster Award for his work on the hybrid perovskites at the MRS Fall Meeting
- Group celebration (Photo)
- Welcome to new post-doctoral scholars Jun Xiao and Aditya Sood
- Congrats to Edbert, Clara, and Suji on their new paper in Nature!
2017
- Annual group death hike to Castle Peak in the Sierra. Photo
- Welcome to new post-doctoral scholar Edbert Sie.
2016
- Congrats to Ehren Mannebach who successfully defended his thesis probing ultrafast processes in transition metal dichalcogenides.
- Congrats to Burak Guzelturk who wins the JCI Turkey Chapter Ten Outstanding Young Persons (TOYP) 2016 Award for Scientific and Technological Development.
- Welcome to new post-doctoral fellow Burak Guzelturk!
- Congratulations to Te Hu who successfully defends his thesis studying ultrafast structural dynamics in the hybrid perovskites.
- Congratulations to Michael Shu who successfully defends his thesis studying electric-field-driven switching processes in phase-change materials. First paper on this now accepted at Physical Review Letters!
- Congratulations to former post-doc Haidan Wen who wins the DOE Career Award!
- Frank Chen successfully defends his thesis on ultrafast terahertz-driven processes in ferroelectrics
2015
- Ehren Mannebach's paper on the ultrafast structural response of monolayer MoS2 accepted in Nano Letters. This represents the first direct studies of these processes using ultrafast electron scattering probes.
- Congratulations to Renee Sher who will start as a new Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University in the fall of 2016.
- Congratulations to Frank Chen who's paper on ultrafast electric-field-driven effects in ferroelectrics is accepted to Advanced Materials.
- Welcome to new post-doc Xiaoxi Wu!
- 4th group death hike to Eastern Sierra - 20 miles in one day up to Thousand Island Lake near Banner Peak. Photo1, Photo2,
- Yi-Hong Kuo successfully defends his thesis entitled "Ultrafast response of a single ferroelectric nanowire".
- Congratulations to post-doc Dr. Peter Zalden who has moved on to a new research position at the Center for Ultrafast Imaging and the European XFEL in Hamburg, Germany.
- Congratulations to Dr. Erzsi Szilagyi who's paper probing nanocrystal structural dynamics and melting was published in Nature Communications.
2014
- Congratulations to former group member Tim Miller who has won the ICFOnest+ Postdoctoral Fellowship at ICFO (Institute of Photonic Sciences) in Spain.
- Congratulations to Ehren Mannebach for his first paper on the ultrafast structural and electronic response of 2D MoS2 monolayers, published in ACS Nano.
- Third group death hike to Graveyard Peak in the central Sierra. Forced to turn back near the summit when a thunderstorm approaches. Photo
- Erzsi Szilagyi successfully defends her thesis entitled "Ultrafast x-ray tomography of breathing mode excitations in semiconductor nanocrystals
- Sanghee Nah and YiHong Kuo's paper probing the ultrafast dynamics of a single optically-trapped ferroelectric nanowire accepted in Nano Letters.
- Michael Shu's paper representing the first study of femtosecond electric-field-driven processes in phase-change materials accepted in Applied Physics Letters.
- New paper by Mike Kozina and Te Hu published, representing the first time-resolved work coming out of SSRL using the new low-alpha short pulse mode.
- Congratulations to Ehren Mannebach for winning a best poster award at the MRS Spring meeting for his work probing the ultrafast structural response of 2D materials.
- New paper by Josh Wittenberg et al. on nanocrystal phase transformations published in Nano Letters.
2013
- Second group death hike to Eastern Sierra. All return alive. Photo1. Photo2.
- Welcome to new post-docs Peter Zalden and Renee Sher
- Congrats to Michael Shu who's first paper on the ultrafast response of phase-change materials is accepted in Applied Physics Letters.
2012
- Tim Miller wins silver medal, MRS Fall 2012 Meeting
- Tim Miller's paper on nanoscale superionicity accepted in Nature Communications
- Tim Miller successfully defends his thesis entitled "Real-time studies of the mechanisms of nanocrystal structural phase changes"
- Welcome to two new graduate students, Michael Shu and Te Hu and two new post-docs, Ioannis Chatzakis and Sanghee Nah
- Tim Miller named recipient of Melvin P. Klein Scientific Development Award
- Dan Daranciang successfully defends his thesis entitled "Ultrafast photovoltaic response in ferroelectric thin films"- the first in the group!
- Dan Daranciang's paper on ultrafast processes in ferroelectrics published in Phys. Rev. Lett.
2011
- Lindenberg group death hike to Mt. Agassiz in Eastern Sierra. Photo
- Frank Chen wins an NSF Graduate Student Fellowship
- Dan Daranciang's paper on intense single-cycle THz light pulses published in Appl. Phys. Lett - new record field strengths!
- John Goodfellow wins a DOE SCGF Graduate Student Fellowship
