Project description
Real-time, tabletop, ultrafast microscopy
The project HYPER aims to expand the impact and purpose of innovative technology for tabletop ultrafast EUV microscopy, by increasing its robustness, throughput, speed and availability to the public, while retaining cost-effectiveness. Keys to this advancement are the implementation of beamline diagnostics, the development of efficient imaging algorithms and the use of fast EUV detection technology. Accessibility to a broader range of stakeholders and end-users will be deployed through a network of academic and industry partners, leading to unprecedented understanding of functionality at the nanoscale.
Objective
Recent advances in Coherent X-ray Microscopy opened new exciting avenues for 2D/3D imaging, allowing to visualize deformations in batteries and solar cells during charge migration, magnetic topologies, catalysts pollution, transistors fabrication defects, neuron activity. These emerging applications are expected to offer significant growth opportunities to market players in the coming years, complementing the possibilities offered by optical and electron-based microscopy methods. However, the expansion of this technology is currently hindered by its availability at facility-scale installations, where implementations are expensive and limit accessibility to a highly-specialized community.
In ULTRAIMAGE (851154), we tackled the challenge by scaling this technology to a tabletop device, while retaining flexibility and complementary facility-scale performances. Specifically, we prototyped a coherent XUV microscope which offers the following advantages: (i) femtosecond time- and ngstrom-to-nanometer spatial resolution; (ii) exquisite material composition and height contrast, through amplitude and phase; (iii) self-diagnostic capabilities of aberrations and misalignments; (iv) quantitative, multimodal, non-destructive imaging.
HYPER aims towards the next step of R&I, increasing robustness, throughput, speed, and availability to the public, while retaining cost-effectiveness. Key to this advancement is: (i) implementation of beamline-style, real-time, diagnostics of intensity, spectrum, wavefront of the illumination; (ii) use of code parallelization, deep-learning, and fast XUV detection technology. Accessibility to a broad range of stakeholders and end users, and the translation to market of the consolidated technology, will be deployed through a strategic network of academe and industry partners. HYPER will foster broad, unprecedented understanding of functionality at the nanoscale, vital to the design of next generation optoelectronics and biomedical devices.
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- natural sciences mathematics pure mathematics topology
- natural sciences physical sciences optics microscopy
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- natural sciences chemical sciences catalysis
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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27100 Pavia
Italy
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