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. Generating circularly polarized radiation in the extreme ultraviolet spectral range at the free-electron laser FLASH

    C. von Korff Schmising, D. Weder, T. Noll, B. Pfau, M. Hennecke, C. Strüber, I. Radu, M. Schneider, S. Staeck, C. M. Günther, J. Lüning, A. el dine Merhe, J. Buck, G. Hartmann, J. Viefhaus, R. Treusch, S. Eisebitt

     Review of Scientific Instruments 88 (2017) 053903 /1-9
  2. Experimental evaluations of signal-to-noise in spectro-holography via modified uniformly redundant arrays in the soft x-ray and extreme ultraviolet spectral regime

    C. M. Günther, E. Guehrs, M. Schneider, B. Pfau, C. von Korff Schmising, J. Geilhufe, S. Schaffert, S. Eisebitt

     Journal of Optics 19 (2017) 064002/1-11
  3. Multi-color imaging of magnetic Co/Pt heterostructures

    F. Willems, C. von Korff Schmising, D. Weder, C. M. Günther, M. Schneider, B. Pfau, S. Meise, E. Guehrs, J. Geilhufe, A. El Din Merhe, E. Jal, B. Vodungbo, J. Lüning, B. Mahieu, F. Capotondi, E. Pedersoli, D. Gauthier, M. Manfredda, S. Eisebitt

     Structural Dynamics 4 (2017) 014301/1-13
  4. Three-dimensional characterization of Co/Pd multilayer thin films using resonant soft x-ray scattering

    S. Flewett, D. Mishra, T. J. A. Mori, C. M. Günther, J. C. Denardin, S. Oyarzún, S. Michea, D. Engel, M. Fohler, T. C. R. Rocha, A. Ovalle F., L. T. Núñez A., B. Pfau, J. Escrig, S. Eisebitt

     Physical Review B 95 (2017) 094430/1-11
  5. Multi-color imaging of magnetic Co/Pt multilayers

    D. Weder, C. von Korff Schmising, F. Willems, C. M. Günther, M. Schneider, B. Pfau, A. Merhe, E. Jal, B. Vodungbo, J. Lüning, B. Mahieu, F. Capotondi, E. Pedersoli, S. Eisebitt

     IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 53 (2017) 6500905/1-5
  6. Holography-guided ptychography with soft Xrays

    P. Hessing, B. Pfau, E. Guehrs, M. Schneider, L. Shemilt, J. Geilhufe, S. Eisebitt

     Opt. Express 24 (2016) 1840-1851
  7. Corrigendum: Indirect excitation of ultrafast demagnetization

    B. Vodungbo, B. Tudu, J. Perron, R. Delaunay, L. Muller, M. H. Berntsen, G. Grubel, G. Malinowski, C. Weier, J. Gautier, G. Lambert, P. Zeitoun, C. Gutt, E. Jal, A. H. Reid, P. W. Granitzka, N. Jaouen, G. L. Dakovski, S. Moeller, M. P. Minitti, A. Mitra, S. Carron, B. Pfau, C. V. Schmising, M. Schneider, S. Eisebitt, J. Luning

     Scientific Reports 6 (2016) 21727/1p
  8. Indirect excitation of ultrafast demagnetization

    B. Vodungbo, B. Tudu, J. Perron, R. Delaunay, L. Muller, M. H. Berntsen, G. Grubel, G. Malinowski, C. Weier, J. Gautier, G. Lambert, P. Zeitoun, C. Gutt, E. Jal, A. H. Reid, P. W. Granitzka, N. Jaouen, G. L. Dakovski, S. Moeller, M. P. Minitti, A. Mitra, S. Carron, B. Pfau, C. V. Schmising, M. Schneider, S. Eisebitt, J. Luning

     Scientific Reports 6 (2016) 18970/1-9
  9. Imaging Non-Local Magnetization Dynamics

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

     Synchrotron Radiation News 29 (2016) 26-31
  10. Curved gratings as an integrated photon fluence monitor in x-ray transmission scattering experiments

    M. Schneider, C. M. Günther, C. von Korff Schmising, B. Pfau, S. Eisebitt

     Opt. Express 24 (2016) 13091-13100