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16. December 2019

Felix Willems received Ernst-Eckhard-Koch Award 2019 for his PhD thesis on ultrafast magnetization dynamics

He had analysed ultrafast switching processes using spectroscopic methods at synchrotron sources like BESSY II

2019 Ernst-Eckhard-Koch Award © M. Setzpfandt/HZB
Felix Willems, MBI, (right) receives the 2019 Ernst-Eckhard-Koch Award together with Simon Krause, TU Dresden, (left), handed over by Prof. M. Richter / Copyright: M. Setzpfandt/HZB

In his research, Willems combined static experiments with synchrotron radiation at BESSY II with femtosecond time-resolved experiments on a laser-based high harmonic generation source at MBI. Via measurements of both the real and imaginary part of the magnetic dichroic contribution to the refractive index in iron, cobalt and nickel at the 3p (M-edge) resonances, he has laid the experimental foundation for an improved theoretical ab-initio description of these spectra. This subsequently enabled a time-dependent theoretical description of the magnetic response to an optical stimulus on the femtosecond time scale. This time scale was experimentally accessed in Willems’ PhD work via pump-probe experiments using a high harmonic source, providing soft x-ray pulses of 30 femtosecond duration in resonance with the respective 3p core transitions. Willems could probe the dynamic response of multi-element magnetic systems with this approach, providing new insight into spin-flip and interatomic transport related mechanisms active during the manipulation of magnetization via ultrashort laser pulses.

PhD Thesis, Felix Alexander Willems, “Ultrafast optical demagnetization dynamics in thin elemental films and alloys: foundations of and results from helicity-dependent and time-resolved XUV spectroscopy”, Technische Universität Berlin (2019)


Source: Press release Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI)

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Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI)
Dr. Felix Alexander Willems
Phone​ +49 30 6392-1374
Email felix.willems(at)mbi-berlin.de
www.mbi-berlin.de

Success Stories Research Photonics / Optics Microsystems / Materials

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