• Imaging nanoscale & femtosecond irreversible phase transition

• Quantum control of matters with femtosecond lasers

• Single particle imaging of nanoparticles

Related publications

• Y. Ihm, et al., "Direct observation of picosecond melting and disintegration of metallic nanoparticles", Nat. Commun. 10:2411 (2019).

• C. Jung, et al., "Inducing thermodynamically blocked atomic ordering via strongly driven nonequilibrium kinetics", Sci. Adv. 7:eabj8552 (2021).

• J. Shin, et al., "Ultrafast energy transfer process in confined Au nanospheres revealed by femtosecond X-ray imaging and diffraction", Nano Letters 23:1481 (2023).

• 3D single particle imaging in XFEL

• Tomographic imaging of nano-structures of organelles

• Spatial ordering of nano-composites in biological specimens

Related publications

• D. H. Cho, et al., "High-Throughput 3D Ensemble Characterization of Individual Core-Shell Nanoparticles With X-ray Free Electron Laser Single-Particle Imaging", ACS Nano 15:4066 (2021).

• D. Sung, et al., "Stochastic chromatin packing of 3D mitotic chromosomes revealed by coherent X-rays", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 118:e2109921118 (2021).

• S. Y. Lee, et al., "Nanoscale Three-Dimensional Network Structure of a Mesoporous Particle Unveiled via Adaptive Multidistance Coherent X-ray Tomography", ACS Nano 17:22488 (2023).

• Ultrafast photo-induced phase transitions 

• Strong correlations in non-equilibrium conditions

• Photon-electron-ion/spin/orbital energy transfer mechanisms 

Related publications

• H. Lee, et al., "Observing femtosecond orbital dynamics in ultrafast Ge melting with time-resolved resonant X-ray scattering", IUCrJ 10:700 (2023).