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. Holger Stiel

holger.stiel(at)mbi-berlin.de
+49 30 6392 1351

B2: Imaging and Coherent X-rays
Building B, 2.10

Position

  • Project Coordinator 4.2 "Application Laboratories and Technology Transfer",
  • Project Member 3.3 "Transient Structures and Imaging with X-rays",
  • Head of BLiX-Laboratory

Research

My research and development interests cover:

  • Structure function relationships of parts of photosynthetic apparatus
  • X-ray absorption and emission spectroscopy of organic molecules
  • Design and development  of laser based short wavelength and X-ray sources
  • Soft X-ray imaging using laser based sources
  • Laboratory X-ray microscopy

Curriculum vitae

1993 - present: Senior Scientist
Max-Born-Institute

1991 - 1993: Scientist
Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy

1979 - 1991: Scientist
Zentralinstitut für Optik und Spektroskopie (ZOS), Academy of Sciences, GDR

1986: Ph.D. Thesis: "Development of a spectrometer for nonlinear absorption measurements and its application"
Dr. rer. nat.  Humboldt University Berlin

1979: Diploma Thesis: "Polaritons in CdS"
Moscow Lomonosov State University (MSU), Moscow, Russia

MBI Publications

  1. High-repetition rate femtosecond laser-driven hard X-ray source

    A. Egbert, B. Mader, B. Tkachenko, C. Fallnich, B. N. Chichkov, H. Stiel, P. V. Nickles

     Applied Physics Letters 81 (2002) 2328-2330
  2. Ultrashort 1-kHz laser plasma hard x-ray source

    G. Korn, A. Thoss, H. Stiel, U. Vogt, M. Richardson, T. Elsaesser, M. Faubel

     Optics Letters 27 (2002) 866-868
  3. Absolute X-ray yield studies from Xe-clusters with ultrashort Ti:sapphire laser pulses at 2x1018 W/cm2

    P. V. Nickles, S. Ter-Avetisyan, H. Stiel, W. Sandner, M. Schnürer

     AIP Conference Proceedings Melville, New York, 2002 (2002) 288-293
  4. Excitonic coupling of chlorophylls in the plant light-harvesting complex LHC-II

    A. Schubert, W. Beenken, H. Stiel, B. Voigt, D. Leupold, H. Lokstein

     Biophysical Journal 82 (2002) 1030-1039
  5. Absolute EUV-yield from fs laser excited Xe-clusters

    S. Ter-Avetisyan, M. Schnürer, H. Stiel, U. Vogt, W. Radloff, W. Karpov, W. Sandner, P. V. Nickles

     Physical Review E 64 (2001) 036404/1-8
  6. Towards time resolved, coupled structure-function information on carotenoid excited state processes: X-ray and optical short pulse double resonance spectroscopy

    H. Stiel, D. Leupold, M. Beck, I. Will, H. Lokstein, W. Sandner

     Journal of Biomedical and Biophysical Methods 48 (2001) 239-246
  7. Influence of laser intensity and pulse duration on the EUV-yield from a water jet target laser plasma

    U. Vogt, H. Stiel, I. Will, P. V. Nickles, W. Sandner, M. Wieland, T. Wilkens

     Applied Physics Letters 79 (2001) 2336-2338
  8. Scaling a water jet laser plasma source for EUV-lithography to high average power

    U. Vogt, H. Stiel, I. Will, M. Wieland, T. Wilhein, P. V. Nickles, W. Sandner

     SPIE Proceedings Series 4343 (2001) 87-93
  9. Design and application of a zone plate monochromator for laboratory

    U. Vogt, M. Wieland, T. Wilhein, M. Beck, H. Stiel

     Review of Scientific Instruments 72 (2001) 53-57
  10. Evaluation of the energetic position of the lowest excited singlet state of b-carotene by NEXAFS and photoemission spectroscopy

    M. Beck, H. Stiel, D. Leupold, B. Winter, D. Pop, U. Vogt, C. Spitz

     Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1506 (2001) 260-267