Publications by Alessandro Colombo

Crystallization kinetics of atomic crystals revealed by a single-shot and single-particle X-ray diffraction experiment

Christoph Bostedt, Alessandro Colombo, Giorgio Rossi

Crystallization is a fundamental natural phenomenon and the ubiquitous physical process in materials science for the design of new materials. So far, experimental observations of the structural dynamics in crystallization have been mostly restricted to slo ...

National Academy of Sciences2021

Imaging plasma formation in isolated nanoparticles with ultrafast resonant scattering

Christoph Bostedt, Daniela Rupp, Alessandro Colombo

We have recorded the diffraction patterns from individual xenon clusters irradiated with intense extreme ultraviolet pulses to investigate the influence of light-induced electronic changes on the scattering response. The clusters were irradiated with short ...

2020

Characterizing crystalline defects in single nanoparticles from angular correlations of single-shot diffracted X-rays

Christoph Bostedt, Alessandro Colombo, Giorgio Rossi

Characterizing and controlling the uniformity of nanoparticles is crucial for their application in science and technology because crystalline defects in the nanoparticles strongly affect their unique properties. Recently, ultra-short and ultra-bright X-ray ...

INT UNION CRYSTALLOGRAPHY2020

Ultrafast Structural Dynamics of Nanoparticles in Intense Laser Fields

Christoph Bostedt, Alessandro Colombo, Giorgio Rossi

Femtosecond laser pulses have opened new frontiers for the study of ultrafast phase transitions and nonequilibrium states of matter. In this Letter, we report on structural dynamics in atomic clusters pumped with intense near-infrared (NIR) pulses into a n ...

2019