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Experiments

Sample preparation for the EuXFEL

April 2024. We are getting ready for experiment at the European X-ray free-electron laser !
Results

A first publication for the project: shock compression experiments using the DiPOLE 100-X laser…

23 April 2024. We have one! The first publication from the project is out, with a demonstration for new experiments using the DiPOLE 100-X laser at the EuXFEL.
Outreach

High school lab visit

10 April 2024. High shool students from Bethune in the lab.
People news

Start of internship for Aeryn Meurillon

2 Apr 2024. Aeryn Meurillon is a student for a technical degree at the Technology Institute of the Université de Lille. She joined the project for 2 and 1/2 months starting April 2024. She will help us starting visco-elastic properties measurements on metals with our new instruments.
Outreach

Bar des Sciences presentation

On 28 March 2024, S. Merkel gave a presentation at the Bar de Sciences of the Science at the Université de Lille.
Project

PhD fellowship in Mineral Physics / Materials Science starting fall 2024

20 March 2024. We are looking for one PhD fellowship, to start work in the fall of 2024. The research will involve laboratory- and synchrotron-based deformation of metallic alloys using a new apparatus recently delivered to the lab. The candidate will be in charge of calibrating the instrument and study the microstructural response of metallic alloys as a function of applied deformation, and temperature, up to the alloy’s melting temperature. The candidate will have access to the local, staffed electron microscopy facility for characterizing the sample states prior and after the mechanical tests. Tests will be performed in the Lille High Pressure Laboratory and at synchrotrons.
Conferences

European Geoscience Union General Assembly

In April 2024, S. Merkel will attend the European Geoscience Union General Assembly in Vienna.
People news

Start of internship for Léo Carin

3 March 2024. He will work with Nadège Hilairet and Julien Chantel to test new means to combine deformation experiments and post-mortem characterization in the laboratory.
Outreach

High school teachers visit

2023-2024 is the Year of Physics for CNRS. As part of the event, local high school teachers were visiting the lab on 24 January 2024.
Experiments

A new spectrometer

10 January 2024. It has arrived. Our new Teledyne / Princeton Instruments spectrometer and CCD cameras were delivered in January.