Max Born Institute Intranet

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. Pump energy reduction for a high gain Ag X-ray laser using one long and two short pump pulses

    R. A. Banici, G. V. Cojocaru, R. G. Ungureanu, R. Dabu, D. Ursescu, H. Stiel

     Optics Letters 37 (2012) 5130-5132
  2. High average brightness water window source for short-exposure cryomicroscopy

    D. H. Martz, M. Selin, O. von Hofsten, E. Fogelqvist, , A. Holmberg, U. Vogt, H. Legall, G. Blobel, C. Seim, H. Stiel, H. M. Hertz

     Optics Letters 37 (2012) 4425-4427
  3. Ethanol (C2H5OH) spray of sub-micron droplets for laser driven negative ion source

    R. Prasad, M. Borghesi, F. Abicht, P.-V. Nickles, H. Stiel, M. Schnürer, S. Ter-Avetisyan

     Review of Scientific Instruments 83 (2012) 083301/1-6
  4. Compact x-ray microscope for the water window based on a high brightness laser plasma source

    H. Legall, G. Blobel, H. Stiel, W. Sandner, C. Seim, P. Takman, D. H. Martz, M. Selin, U. Vogt, H. M. Hertz, D. Esser, H. Sipma, J. Luttmann, M. Höfer, H. D. Hoffmann, S. Yulin, T. Feigl, S. Rehbein, P. Guttmann, G. Schneider, U. Wiesemann, M. Wirtz, W. Diete

     Optics Express 20 (2012) 18362-18369
  5. Note: Study of extreme ultraviolet and soft x-ray emission of metal targets produced by laser-plasma-interaction

    I. Mantouvalou, R. Jung, J. Tuemmler, H. Legall, T. Bidu, H. Stiel, W. Malzer, B. Kanngießer, W. Sandner

     Review of Scientific Instruments 82 (2011) 066103/1-3
  6. Signal build-up from noise and seeding in plasma-based x-ray lasers

    C. M. Kim, K. Janulewicz, J. Lee, H. Stiel, M. Nishikino, N. Hasegawa, T. Kawachi

    SPIE Proceedings Series 8140 (2011) 814008 /1-
  7. X-ray laser takes the 100 Hz barrier

    H. Stiel, J. Tuemmler, R. Jung, P. V. Nickles, W. Sandner

     SPIE Proceedings Series 7451 (2009) 745109-1
  8. Complementary ion and extreme ultra-violet spectrometer for laser-plasma diagnosis

    S. Ter-Avetsiyan, B.Ramakrishna, D. Doria, G. Sarri, M. Zepf, M. Borghesi, L. Ehrentraut, H. Stiel, S. Steinke, G. Priebe, M. Schnürer, P. V. Nickles, W. Sandner

     Review of Scientific Instruments 80 (2009) 103302/1-5
  9. Research on the seeding of high-energy harmonic pulse into an x-ray lasing medium

    H. T. Kim, C. M. Kim, K. A. Janulewicz, K. T. Kim, I. J. Kim, T. J. Yu, S. K. Lee, HJ. H. Sung, I. W. Choi, H. Stiel, J. Tuemmler, T. Mocek, J. Nejdl, M. Kozlová

     SPIE Proceedings Series 7451 (2009) 74510W/1-8
  10. High-repetition-rate chirped-pulse-amplification thin-disk laser system with joule-level pulse energy

    J. Tuemmler, R. Jung, H. Stiel, P. V. Nickles, W. Sandner

     Optics Letters 34 (2009) 1378-1380