Nanoscale Transport Phenomena

Nov 30, 2023, 9:00 AM → Dec 1, 2023, 7:10 PM Europe/Rome

Adriatico Guesthouse, Trieste, Italy

PLEASE NOTE: Accommodation at the Guesthouse available only from November 30th. 

 

The FERMI free electron laser (FEL) is able to deliver photon pulses in the extreme ultraviolet and soft X-ray range with stability, coherence and tunability (both in photon energy and polarization) not far from those of a table-top laser.

This unique photon source has been used to implement time-resolved experimental methods, including polarimetry, nanoscale transient grating, X-ray absorption spectroscopy and scattering. These experimental tools hold great potential for studying dynamic processes related to phonon, charge and spin transport at the nanoscale. The results obtained so far demonstrated a range of feasible experiments and show interesting prospects. 

On such grounds, the "nanoscale transport phenomena" workshop is aimed at starting an in depth discussion between instrumental scientists, users and internationally recognized experts in the fields of phonon, spin and charge transport.

This workshop will be hosted by Elettra-ST in the Adriatico Guesthouse, from November 30th to December 1st, 2023. No attendance fee is requested to the participants, unless you may want to attend to the conference dinner.

In addition to invited speakers, the workshop programme includes designated time for poster sessions; we encourage abstract submission for a poster presentation.

The registration form and the workshop's programme will be available soon, looking forward to seeing you in Trieste!

 

Confirmed invited speakers

• Begoña Abad (University of Basel)
• Matias Bargheer (University of Potsdam)
• Majed Chergui (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
• Chiara Ciccarelli (University of Cambridge)
• Iulia Cojocariu (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
• Martina Dell'Angela (CNR-IOM)
• Valentina Giordano (University of Lyon)
• Bart Graczykowski (University of Poznan)
• Stephan Mangin (University of Lorraine)
• Peter Oppeneer (University of Uppsala)
• Clemens von Korff (Max Born institute - Berlin)
• Simon Wall (Aarhus University)

 

Scientific Committee

• Filippo Bencivenga (chair)
• Flavio Capotondi
• Laura Foglia
• Marco Malvestuto
• Claudio Masciovecchio
• Riccardo Mincigrucci

 

Organizing Committee

• Michela Bassanese
• Letizia Pierandrei
• Mojca Skabar

Thursday, November 30

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM Opening

9:00 AM Registration (for who will join the FERMI's visit)

9:30 AM → 12:00 PM Visit to FERMI: A bus will pick up participants in the parking lot on the sea front and take them back after the visit

12:00 PM → 3:50 PM Opening

12:00 PM Registration

2:00 PM Welcome

Speaker: Claudio Masciovecchio (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)

2:15 PM Fonda-Fasella Award: Profiling metal organic/metal hybrid interfaces: photoemission orbital tomography as an identikit tool

Speaker: Iulia Cojocariu (Physics Department - Università degli Studi di Trieste, Trieste, Italy)

2:50 PM Experimental facilities at FERMI

Speaker: Filippo Bencivenga (Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste)

3:20 PM Dynamic poster presentation

3:50 PM → 7:45 PM Spin transport

3:50 PM Coffee break and poster

4:20 PM Exploring the role of ultrafast energy transport in nanoscale magnetization switching

Speaker: Clemens von Korff Schmising (Max Born Institute Berlin)

4:55 PM First-principles-based investigations of optically induced ultrafast demagnetization

Speaker: Peter Oppeneer (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Sweden)

5:30 PM Picosecond spin emission from antiferromagnets

Speaker: Chiara Ciccarelli (University of Cambridge)

6:05 PM Appetizer and poster

7:45 PM → 10:00 PM Social dinner

7:45 PM Social dinner

Friday, December 1

9:00 AM → 12:00 PM Phonon transport

9:00 AM The effect of echoes interference on phonon dynamics in a nanophononic SiN membrane

Speaker: Valentina Giordano (CNRS - ILM)

9:35 AM Ultrafast X-ray diffraction studies of energy transport at the nanoscale

Speaker: Matias Bargheer (University of Potsdam and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin)

10:10 AM Hypersound and heat transport in functional nanomembranes

Speaker: Bartlomiej Graczykowski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan)

10:45 AM Coffee break, poster and group photo

11:25 AM Investigating phonons and thermal transport by pump-probe spectroscopy

Speaker: Begoña Abad

12:00 PM → 12:35 PM Spin transport

12:00 PM Single femto-second laser pulse to switch magnetization in a spintronic device

Speaker: Stephane Mangin (Université de Lorraine)

12:35 PM → 1:45 PM Lunch break

1:45 PM → 3:50 PM Electron transport

1:45 PM On the element-selectivity of core-level transient grating spectroscopy

Speaker: Majed Chergui (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

2:20 PM Lattice dynamics in 2D materials probed by time resolved soft X-ray spectroscopies at ELETTRA synchrotron

Speaker: Martina Dell'Angela (CNR-IOM)

2:55 PM Imaging heterogeneity in light induced phase transition on the nano-femto scale

Speaker: Simon Wall (Aarhus University)

3:30 PM Coffee break

3:50 PM → 6:05 PM Closing

3:50 PM Best poster talk

4:25 PM Discussion section

5:50 PM Closing