FELIX Laboratory

We are looking for colleagues to develop and maintain a suite of experimental platforms and to work alongside internal and external users performing state-of-the-art experiments in high magnetic fields.

The HFML-FELIX team is happy to announce that the 2023 HFML-FELIX user meeting will take place in Nijmegen on June 13-15 (lunch-to-lunch), in conjunction with the EMFL user meeting.

HFML-FELIX researchers demonstrated how magnetic memory combining plasmonics and magnetism is poised to dramatically increase the bit density and energy efficiency of light-assisted ultrafast magnetic storage. This landed them the cover spot on the December edition of Nano Letters Journal.

Cyanoacetylene, HC3N, is a molecule widespread in the universe, despite its apparent exotic nature. Its ionized variant, HC3N+, though, is much more elusive: it has only rarely been studied in the laboratory, and due to the lack of accurate laboratory spectroscopic fingerprints, has not been detected in space, yet.

Researchers from HFML-FELIX and the University of Amsterdam have extended the boundaries of IRMPD spectroscopy of photostable ions by recording IR spectra of several PAH cations over the range of 6-100 µm using the intracavity free-electron laser FELICE at Radboud University in Nijmegen, where the (far)infrared and THz light intensities are such that bands with very low absorption strengths at long wavelengths can still be excited sufficiently efficient that dissociation occurs. These observations promise the extension of the spectral range used for spectral identification of molecules in space to at least 100 µm.