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. A tabletop setup for ultrafast helicity-dependent and element-specific absorption spectroscopy and scattering in the extreme ultraviolet spectral range

    K. Yao, F. Willems, C. von Korff Schmising, C. Strüber, P. Hessing, B. Pfau, D. Schick, D. Engel, K. Gerlinger, M. Schneider, S. Eisebitt

     Review of Scientific Instruments 91 (2020) 093001/1-10
  2. Transient Magnetic Gratings on the Nanometer Scale

    D. Weder, C. von Korff Schmising, C. M. Günther, M. Schneider, D. Engel, P. Hessing, C. Strüber, M. Weigand, B. Vodungbo, E. Jal, X. Liu, A. Merhe, E. Pedersoli, F. Capotondi, J. Lüning, B. Pfau, S. Eisebitt

     Structural Dynamics 7 (2020) 054501/1-13
  3. First commissioning results of the KB mirrors at the SCS instrument of the European XFEL

    G. Mercurio, C. Broers, R. Carley, J. T. Delitz, N. Gerasimova, L. Le Guyarder, L. Mercadier, A. Reich, J. Schlappa, M. Teichmann, A. Yaroslavtsev, M. Cascella, K. Setoodehnia, M. Schneider, B. Pfau, S. Eisebitt, V. Vozda, V. Hájková, L. Vyšín, T. Burian, J. Chalupský, L. Juha, S. G. Alcock, I. Nistea, D. La Civita, H. Sinn, M. Vannoni, A. Scherz

     SPIE Proceedings Series 11109 (2019) 111090F-1/1-9
  4. In situ single-shot diffractive fluence mapping for X-ray free-electron laser pulses

    M. Schneider, C. M. Günther, B. Pfau, F. Capotondi, M. Manfredda, M. Zangrando, N. Mahne, L. Raimondi, E. Pedersoli, D. Naumenko, S. Eisebitt

     Nature Communications 9 (2018) 214/1-6
  5. Fast current-driven domain walls and small skyrmions in a compensated ferrimagnet

    L. Caretta, M. Mann, F. Büttner, K. Ueda, B. Pfau, C. M. Günther, P. Hessing, A. Churikova, C. Klose, M. Schneider, D. Engel, C. Marcus, D. Bono, K. Bagschik, S. Eisebitt, G. S. D. Beach

     Nature Nanotechnology 13 (2018) 1154–1160
  6. 2D and 3D nanoscale imaging using high repetition rate laboratory-based soft x-ray sources

    H. Stiel, A. Blechschmidt, A. Dehlinger, R. Jung, E. Malm, B. Pfau, C. Pratsch, C. Seim, J. Tümmler, M. Zürch

     X-Ray Lasers 2016, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers Springer, Heidelberg (2018) 265-272
  7. Imaging nanometer phase coexistence at defects during the insulator−metal phase transformation in VO2 thin films by resonant soft X‑ray holography

    L. Vidas, C. M. Günther, T. A. Miller, B. Pfau, D. Perez-Salinas, E. Martínez, M. Schneider, E. Guehrs, P. Gargiani, M. Valvidares, R. E. Marvel, K. A. Hallman, R. F. Haglund, S. Eisebitt, S. Wall

     Nano Letters 18 (2018) 3449-3453
  8. Field-free deterministic ultrafast creation of magnetic skyrmions by spin–orbit torques

    F. Büttner, I. Lemesh, M. Schneider, B. Pfau, C. M. Günther, P. Hessing, J. Geilhufe, L. Caretta, D. Engel, B. Krüger, J. Viefhaus, S. Eisebitt, G. S. D. Beach

     Nature Nanotechnology 12 (2017) 1040–1044
  9. A general approach to obtain soft x-ray transparency for thin films grown on bulk substrates

    M. Fohler, S. Frömmel, M. Schneider, B. Pfau, C. Günther, M. Hennecke, E. Guehrs, L. Shemilt, D. Mishra, D. Berger, S. Selve, D. Mitin, M. Albrecht, S. Eisebitt

     Review of Scientific Instruments 88 (2017) 103701/1-7
  10. Thermally induced magnetic switching in bit-patterned media

    B. Pfau, C. M. Günther, T. Hauet, S. Eisebitt, O. Hellwig

     Journal of Applied Physics 122 (2017) 043907/1-7