Research

The MagneDyn beamline: Investigating Ultrafast Magnetic Phenomena

The MagneDyn beamline lets you watch magnetism happen in real time, using ultrashort, tunable pulses from the FERMI free-electron laser combined with a synchronized optical laser (SLU) in a pump-probe scheme: the optical pulse triggers a change in the sample, and the FEL/EUV pulse takes a femtosecond-resolution snapshot of the result. Three complementary techniques are available: time-resolved EUV magneto-optical Kerr/Faraday effect (tr-MOKE), time-resolved X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (tr-XMCD) at the L3 edges of transition metals, and time-resolved resonant X-ray emission/inelastic scattering (tr-RXES/RIXS). Sample temperature can be varied from 300 K down to 10 K, with magnetic fields up to 1.6 Tesla.

• Ultrafast magnetodynamics with free-electron lasers Marco Malvestuto, Roberta Ciprian, Antonio Caretta, Barbara Casarin, Fulvio Parmigiani . Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 2018 https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-648x/aaa211
• Science Frontiers with X-Ray Free Electron Laser Sources. Synchrotron Radiation. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2015 pp. 761-785.
• Time resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy in condensed matter: A road map to the future. Martina Dell'Angela et al. Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related, 2015 vol. 200 pp. 22-30
• Magneto dynamical studies at Fermi@Elettra. A white paper.Parmigiani F., Malvestuto M.;(2011)