Publications de Gabriele Berruto

Ultrafast generation of hidden phases via energy-tuned electronic photoexcitation in magnetite

Thomas La Grange, Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Benoît Guilhem Michel Binh Truc, Francesco Pennacchio, Gabriele Berruto, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Paolo Usai

Phase transitions occurring in nonequilibrium conditions can evolve through high-energy intermediate states inaccessible via equilibrium adiabatic conditions. Because of the subtle nature of such hidden phases, their direct observation is extremely challen ...

National Academy of Sciences2024

Charge Dynamics Electron Microscopy Nanoscale Imaging of Femtosecond Plasma Dynamics

Thomas La Grange, Fabrizio Carbone, Luca Piazza, Ivan Madan, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Gabriele Berruto, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Francesco Barantani, Ido Kaminer, Simone Gargiulo

Understanding and actively controlling the spatiotemporal dynamics of nonequilibrium electron clouds is fundamental for the design of light and electron sources, high power electronic devices, and plasma-based applications. However, electron clouds evolve ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Longitudinal and transverse modulation of electron wave function with light, and its application to electron microscopy

Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Enrico Pomarico, Gabriele Berruto, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Ido Kaminer

Conventional electron microscopy operates with flat electron wave fronts. Employing attenuative or electrostatic phase plates allows transversally modulating the wave front, enhancing cross-sections of particular scattering channels. Utilization of light f ...

IEEE2021

Charge Dynamics Electron Microscopy

Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Gabriele Berruto, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Francesco Barantani, Ido Kaminer, Simone Gargiulo

We probe plasma dynamics with nm-fs resolution through electron spectroscopy performed in an ultrafast transmission electron microscope. This approach would allow to disentangle the dynamic evolution of plasma parameters and observe previously inaccessible ...

IEEE2021

Nanoscale-femtosecond dielectric response of Mott insulators captured by two-color near-field ultrafast electron microscopy

Thomas La Grange, Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Gabriele Berruto, Francesco Barantani, Simone Gargiulo

Characterizing and controlling the out-of-equilibrium state of nanostructured Mott insulators hold great promises for emerging quantum technologies while providing an exciting playground for investigating fundamental physics of strongly-correlated systems. ...

Nature Research2020

Stacking transition in rhombohedral graphite

Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Gabriele Berruto, Tatiana Latychevskaia, Servet Ozdemir

Few-layer graphene (FLG) has recently been intensively investigated for its variable electronic properties, which are defined by a local atomic arrangement. While the most natural arrangement of layers in FLG is ABA (Bernal) stacking, a metastable ABC (rho ...

HIGHER EDUCATION PRESS2019

Fast and ultrafast electron microscopies for skyrmions and plasmonics

Gabriele Berruto

In recent years, topology gained a central role in physics. We learnt that energetics could be often explained better by classes of objects defined by having qualitative differences. In today's jargon, we say they are topologically distinct. The process of ...

EPFL2019

Ultrafast generation and control of an electron vortex beam via chiral plasmonic near fields

Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Brett Eugene Barwick, Enrico Pomarico, Gabriele Berruto, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Ido Kaminer, Ebrahim Karimi

Vortex-carrying matter waves, such as chiral electron beams, are of significant interest in both applied and fundamental science. Continuous-wave electron vortex beams are commonly prepared via passive phase masks imprinting a transverse phase modulation o ...

2019

Holographic imaging of electromagnetic fields via electron-light quantum interference

Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Enrico Pomarico, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Gabriele Berruto, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Tatiana Latychevskaia

Holography relies on the interference between a known reference and a signal of interest to reconstruct both the amplitude and the phase of that signal. With electrons, the extension of holography to the ultrafast time domain remains a challenge, although ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)2019

Attosecond coherent control of free-electron wave functions using semi-infinite light fields (vol 9, 2694, 2018)

Mingkui Wang, Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Brett Eugene Barwick, Enrico Pomarico, Gabriele Berruto, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Ido Kaminer

Springer2019

Attosecond coherent control of free-electron wave functions using semi-infinite light fields

Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Brett Eugene Barwick, Enrico Pomarico, Gabriele Berruto, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Ido Kaminer

Light–electron interaction is the seminal ingredient in free-electron lasers and dynamical investigation of matter. Pushing the coherent control of electrons by light to the attosecond timescale and below would enable unprecedented applications in quantum ...

Nature Research2018

meV Resolution in Laser-Assisted Energy-Filtered Transmission Electron Microscopy

Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Enrico Pomarico, Gabriele Berruto, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Ido Kaminer, Kangpeng Wang

The electronic, optical, and magnetic properties of quantum solids are determined by their low-energy (

2018

Laser-Induced Skyrmion Writing and Erasing in an Ultrafast Cryo-Lorentz Transmission Electron Microscope

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Enrico Pomarico, Ping Huang, Yoshie Murooka, Gabriele Berruto, Giovanni Maria Vanacore

We demonstrate that light-induced heat pulses of different duration and energy can write Skyrmions in a broad range of temperatures and magnetic field in FeGe. Using a combination of camera-rate and pump- probe cryo-Lorentz transmission electron microscopy ...

2018

Ultrafast imaging of plasmons in a transmission electron microscope

Fabrizio Carbone, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Gabriele Berruto

Miniaturized plasmonic and photonic integrated circuits are generally considered as the core of future generations of optoelectronic devices, due to their potential to bridge the size-compatibility gap between photonics and electronics. However, as the nan ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Imaging and controlling plasmonic interference fields at buried interfaces

Fabrizio Carbone, Brett Eugene Barwick, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Gabriele Berruto

Capturing and controlling plasmons at buried interfaces with nanometre and femtosecond resolution has yet to be achieved and is critical for next generation plasmonic devices. Here we use light to excite plasmonic interference patterns at a buried metal-di ...

Nature Publishing Group2016