Recent editorial initiatives

• Guest Editor of the Structural Dynamics Special Topic entitled "The Advent of Ultrafast X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy" (visit the web page). Deadline for contributing to this Special Topic: 30 June 2023

• Guest Editor of the Applied Sciences Special Issue entitled "Latest Trends in Free Electron Lasers" (visit the web page). The Special Issue is closed (31 January 2022).

Recent research highlights

• Mincigrucci R., Rouxel J.R., Rossi B., Principi E. et al. "Element- and enantiomer-selective visualization of molecular motion in real-time.", Nat Commun 14, 386 (2023)

• C. P. Schwartz, S. L. Raj et al. "Angstrom-Resolved Interfacial Structure in Buried Organic-Inorganic Junctions", Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 096801 (2021)

• C. Ferrante, E. Principi et al. "Non-linear self-driven spectral tuning of Extreme Ultraviolet Femtosecond Pulses in monoatomic materials", Light: Science & Applications 10, 92 (2021)

• J. S. Pelli Cresi, E. Principi et al. "Ultrafast Dynamics of Plasmon-Mediated Charge Transfer in Ag@CeO2 Studied by Free Electron Laser Time-Resolved X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy" Nano Lett. 21, 1729 (2021)

• E. Principi et al. "Atomic and electronic structure of solid-density liquid carbon", Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 155703 (2020).
  Informative reading: Research Outreach, issue 125, pp 162 (2021)
• C. Fasolato et al. "Ultrafast Plasmon Dynamics in Crystalline LiF Triggered by Intense Extreme UV Pulses", Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 184801 (2020)
• E. Principi et al. "Extreme ultraviolet probing of nonequilibrium dynamics in high energy density germanium", Phys. Rev. B 97, 174107 (2018)
• R.K. Lam et al. "Soft X-Ray Second Harmonic Generation as an Interfacial Probe" (2018) Phys. Rev. Lett., 120, 02390 (2018)
• A. Simoncig et al."Generation of coherent magnons in NiO stimulated by EUV pulses from a seeded free-electron laser" Phys. Rev. Materials 1, 073802 (2017)
• F. Bisio, E. Principi et al. "Long-lived nonthermal electron distribution in aluminum excited by femtosecond extreme ultraviolet radiation" Physical Review B, 96 081119 (2017)
• P.R Ribič et al. "Extreme-ultraviolet vortices from a free-electron laser" Physical Review X, 7 031036 (2017)
• E. Principi et al. "Free electron laser-driven ultrafast rearrangement of the electronic structure in Ti" Structural Dynamics, 3 023604 (2016)