Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy
Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy

MBI Staff Member – Personal info

Dr. Bastian Pfau

bastian.pfau(at)mbi-berlin.de
+49 30 6392 1321

B2: Imaging and Coherent X-rays
Building B, 3.5

Position

  • Department Head B2 "Imaging and Coherent X-rays"
  • Project Coordinator 3.3 ""Transient Structures and Imaging with X-rays"
  • Project Member 3.2 "Solids and Nanostructures: Electrons, Spins, and Phonons"

Research

We use X-ray holography to image functional magnetic materials on the nanoscale.

Curriculum vitae

since 2016 Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Born Institute

2014-2015 Postdoctoral Researcher, Lund University, Division of Synchrotron Radation Research

2013 Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) in Physics, Technical University Berlin, Thesis: Imaging magnetic nanostructures using soft x-ray Fourier transform holography

2010-2013 Assistant researcher, Technical University Berlin

2006-2010 Assistant researcher, BESSY synchrotron source, since 2009 named Helmholtz Center Berlin for Materials and Energy

2006 Diplom (MSc) in Physics, Technical University Dresden, Thesis: Combining photon correlation spectroscopy and fluctuation analysis for investigating diffusion dynamics

1999-2006 Study of Physics, Technical University Dresden and University of Vienna

MBI Publications

  1. High-speed spatial encoding of modulated pump-probe signals with slow area detectors

    D. Schick, F. Steinbach, T. Noll, C. Strüber, W. D. Engel, C. von Korff Schmising, B. Pfau, S. Eisebitt

     Measurement Science and Technology 32 (2021) 025901/1-7
  2. Application concepts for ultrafast laser-induced skyrmion creation and annihilation

    K. Gerlinger, B. Pfau, F. Büttner, M. Schneider, L.-M. Kern, J. Fuchs, D. Engel, C. M. Günther, M. Huang, I. Lemesh, L. Caretta, A. Churikova, P. Hessing, C. Klose, C. Strüber, C. von Korff Schmising, S. Huang, A. Wittmann, K. Lizius, D. Metternich, R. Battistelli, K. Bagschik, A. Sadovnikov, G. S. D. Beach, S. Eisebitt

     Applied Physics Letters 118 (2021) 192403/1-7
  3. The patterning toolbox FIB-o-mat: Exploiting the full potential of focused helium ions for nanofabrication

    V. Deinhart, L.-M. Kern, J. N. Kirchhof, S. Juergensen, J. Sturm, E. Krauss, T. Feichtner, S. Kovalchuk, M. Schneider, D. Engel, B. Pfau, B. Hecht, K. I. Bolotin, S. Reich, K. Höflich

     Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology 12 (2021) 304-318
  4. Ultraschnelle Erzeugung von Skyrmionen

    B. Pfau, F. Büttner

     Physik in unserer Zeit 52 (2021) 6-7
  5. Quantitative hyperspectral coherent diffractive imaging spectroscopy of a solid-state phase transition in vanadium dioxide

    A. S. Johnson, J. Valls-Conesa, L. Vidas, D. Perez-Salinas, C. M. Günther, B. Pfau, K. A. Hallman, R. F. Haglund-Jr, S. Eisebitt, S. Wall

     Science Advances 7 (2021) eabf1386/1-9
  6. Laser-driven resonant magnetic soft-x-ray scattering for probing ultrafast antiferromagnetic and structural dynamics

    D. Schick, M. Borchert, J. Braenzel, H. Stiel, J. Tümmler, D. E. Bürgler, A. Firsov, C. von Korff Schmising, B. Pfau, S. Eisebitt

     Optica 8 (2021) 1237-1242
  7. Ultrafast demagnetization dominates fluence dependence of magnetic scattering at Co M edges

    M. Schneider, B. Pfau, C. M. Günther, C. von Korff Schmising, D. Weder, J. Geilhufe, J. Perron, F. Capotondi, E. Pedersoli, M. Manfredda, M. Hennecke, B. Vodungbo, J. Lüning, S. Eisebitt

     Physical Review Letters 125 (2020) 127201 /1-5
  8. Achieving diffraction-limited resolution in soft-x-ray Fourier-transform holography

    J. Geilhufe, B. Pfau, C. M. Günther, M. Schneider, S. Eisebitt

     Ultramicroscopy 214 (2020) 113005/1-29
  9. Singleshot polychromatic coherent diffractive imaging with a high-order harmonic source

    E. Malm, H. Wikmark, B. Pfau, P. Villanueva-Perez, P. Rudawski, J. Peschel, S. Maclot, M. Schneider, S. Eisebitt, A. Mikkelsen, A. L'Huillier, P. Johnsson

     Optics Express 28 (2020) 394-404
  10. Nanoscale imaging of high‐field magnetic hysteresis in meteoritic metal using X‐ray holography

    R. Blukis, B. Pfau, C. M. Günther, P. Hessing, S. Eisebitt, J. Einsle, R. J. Harrison

    Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 21 (2020) e2020GC009044/1-13