Publications

SPRING, an effective and reliable framework for image reconstruction in single-particle Coherent Diffraction Imaging

A. Colombo; M. Sauppe; A. Al Haddad; K. Ayyer; M. Babayan et al. 

npj Computational Materials. 2025. Vol. 11, num. 1, p. 265. DOI : 10.1038/s41524-025-01661-y.

High magnification optical imaging systems for the characterization of soft X-ray focii

A. Al Haddad; A. Sarracini; K. Schnorr; G. Knopp; J. Krempaský et al. 

Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 2025. Vol. 32, num. 6. DOI : 10.1107/s160057752500774x.

Sealed Samples for High-resolution, Microsecond Cryo-EM

W. A. Curtis; J. Hruby; C. R. Krüger; S. V. Barrass; M. Drabbels et al. 

Microscopy and Microanalysis. 2025. Vol. 31, num. Supplement_1. DOI : 10.1093/mam/ozaf048.494.

Ultrathin liquid sheets: water gets in shape for VUV absorption

J. Knurr; P. Hemberger; P. Ascher; S. Augustin; D. J. Hoffman et al. 

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS. 2025. DOI : 10.1039/d4cp04619f.

Non-linear enhancement of ultrafast X-ray diffraction through transient resonances

S. Kuschel; P. J. Ho; A. Al Haddad; F. F. Zimmermann; L. Flueckiger et al. 

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 2025. Vol. 16, num. 1. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-025-56046-y.

Non-Resonant Magnetic X-ray Scattering as a Probe of Ultrafast Molecular Spin-State Dynamics: An Ab Initio Theory

X. Mi; M. Zhang; L. Zhao; Z. Liang; R. Peng et al. 

JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION. 2025. DOI : 10.1021/acs.jctc.4c01296.

Laser flash melting cryo-EM samples to overcome preferred orientation

M. S. Straub; O. F. Harder; N. J. Mowry; S. V. Barrass; J. Hruby et al. 

Nature Methods. 2025. DOI : 10.1038/s41592-025-02796-y.

Demonstration of full polarization control of soft X-ray pulses with Apple X undulators at SwissFEL using recoil ion momentum spectroscopy

C. Kittel; A. Sarracini; S. Augustin; N. Yang; A. Al Haddad et al. 

JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION. 2024. Vol. 31, num. Pt 5, p. 1134 – 1145. DOI : 10.1107/S1600577524006325.

Attosecond delays in X-ray molecular ionization

T. Driver; M. Mountney; J. Wang; L. Ortmann; A. Al Haddad et al. 

NATURE. 2024. Vol. 632, num. 8026. DOI : 10.1038/s41586-024-07771-9.

Double diffraction imaging of x-ray induced structural dynamics in single free nanoparticles

M. Sauppe; T. Bischoff; C. Bomme; C. Bostedt; A. Colombo et al. 

NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. 2024. Vol. 26, num. 7. DOI : 10.1088/1367-2630/ad5d84.

Experimental demonstration of attosecond pump-probe spectroscopy with an X-ray free-electron laser

Z. Guo; T. Driver; S. Beauvarlet; D. Cesar; J. Duris et al. 

Nature Photonics. 2024. DOI : 10.1038/s41566-024-01419-w.

Design and implementation of a soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy setup for liquid samples at SwissFEL

J. Knurr / C. Bostedt (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. 

A multi-reservoir extruder for time-resolved serial protein crystallography and compound screening at X-ray free-electron lasers

M. Wranik; M. W. Kepa; E. V. Beale; D. James; Q. Bertrand et al. 

Nature Communications. 2023. Vol. 14, num. 1, p. 7956. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-023-43523-5.

An X-ray free-electron laser with a highly configurable undulator and integrated chicanes for tailored pulse properties

E. Prat; A. Al Haddad; C. Arrell; S. Augustin; M. Boll et al. 

Nature Communications. 2023. Vol. 14, num. 1, p. 5069. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-023-40759-z.

Ultrafast structural changes direct the first molecular events of vision

T. Gruhl; T. Weinert; M. J. Rodrigues; C. J. Milne; G. Ortolani et al. 

Nature. 2023. Vol. 615, p. 939 – 944. DOI : 10.1038/s41586-023-05863-6.

Observation of site-selective chemical bond changes via ultrafast chemical shifts

A. Al-Haddad; S. Oberli; J. Gonzalez-Vazquez; M. Bucher; G. Doumy et al. 

Nature Communications. 2022. Vol. 13, num. 1, p. 7170. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-022-34670-2.

Widely tunable two-color x-ray free-electron laser pulses

E. Prat; P. Dijkstal; E. Ferrari; R. Ganter; P. Juranic et al. 

Physical Review Research. 2022. Vol. 4, num. 2, p. L022025. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.L022025.

Attosecond coherent electron motion in Auger-Meitner decay

S. Li; T. Driver; P. Rosenberger; E. G. Champenois; J. Duris et al. 

Science. 2022. Vol. 375, num. 6578, p. 285 – 290. DOI : 10.1126/science.abj2096.

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

A. Niozu; Y. Kumagai; T. N. Hiraki; H. Fukuzawa; K. Motomura et al. 

Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America (PNAS). 2021. Vol. 118, num. 52, p. e2111747118. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.2111747118.

Aggregation of solutes in bosonic versus fermionic quantum fluids

A. J. Feinberg; D. Verma; S. M. O. O’Connell-Lopez; S. Erukala; R. M. P. Tanyag et al. 

Science Advances. 2021. Vol. 7, num. 50, p. eabk2247. DOI : 10.1126/sciadv.abk2247.