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 Publikationen

  1. Comparison of focusing optics for femtosecond X-ray diffraction

    M. Bargheer, N. Zhavoronkov, R. Bruch, H. Legall, H. Stiel, M. Woerner, T. Elsaesser

    Applied Physics B 80 (2005) 715-719
  2. High resolution x-ray absorption spectroscopy using a laser plasma radiation source

    U. Vogt, H. Stiel, H. Legall, T. Wilhein

    Review of Scientific Instruments 75 (2004) 4606-4609
  3. Explosion characteristics of intense femtosecond-laser driven water droplets

    M. Schnürer, D. Hilscher, U. Jahnke, S. Ter-Avetisyan, S. Busch, M. Kalashnikov, H. Stiel, P. V. Nickles, W. Sandner

    Physical Review E 70 (2004) 056401/1-10
  4. Spatial and spectral characterization of a laser produced plasma source for EUV metrology

    H. Legall, H. Stiel, U. Vogt, H. Schönnagel, P.-V. Nickles, J. Tuemmler, F. Scholz, F. Scholze

    Review of Scientific Instruments 75 (2004) 4981-4988
  5. Efficient extreme ultraviolet emission from xenon-cluster jet targets at high repetition rate laser illumination

    S. Ter-Avetisyan, U. Vogt, H. Stiel, M. Schnürer, I. Will, P. V. Nickles

    Journal of Applied Physics 94 (2003) 5489-5496
  6. A high-density sub-micron liquid spray for laser driven radiation sources

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

    Journal of Physics D-Applied Physics 36 (2003) 2421-2426
  7. Ion acceleration with ultrafast lasers

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

    Applied Physics Letters 82 (2003) 3354-3356
  8. KIlohertz sources of hard x-rasy and fast ions with femtosecond laser-plasmas

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

    Journal of the Optical Society of America B 20 (2003) 224-228
  9. Characterization of a laser-produced plasma source for a laboratory EUV reflectometer

    F. Scholze, F. Scholz, J. Tuemmler, G. Ulm, H. Legall, P.V. Nickles, W. Sandner, H. Stiel, L. van Loyen

    SPIE Proceedings Series 5037 (2003) 670-681
  10. A new laboratory EUV reflectometer for large optics using a laser plasma source

    L. van Loyen, T. Boettger, S. Braun, H. Mai, A. Leson, F. Scholze, J.Tuemmler, G. Ulm, H. Legall, P.V. Nickles, W. Sandner, H. Stiel, C. E. Rempel, M. Schulze, J. Brutscher, F. Macco, S. Muellender

    SPIE Proceedings Series 5038 (2003) 12-21