CHEM590X students take a "Behind the Scenes" tour of the Advanced Photon Source!
CHEM 590X students went on a field trip to the Advanced Photon Source synchrotron at Argonne National Lab. We received a rare "behind...
We Installed a New Femtosecond OPA Laser
A new femtosecond laser was installed close to the MRL Hitachi-9500 ETEM. It consists of a femtosecond 1030 nm pump laser (Pharos) and a...
Cecilia Presents Her Work For Our Collaborators at the Advanced Photon Source
Cecilia presents her work for the Advanced Photon Source Science Advisory Committee Review of Sector 7-ID Pump-Probe!
Movie of Single-Shot Laser Pulse in TEM!
The .gif above shows a real time movie of a single-shot laser pulse within the TEM.
Laser meets electrons! Van der Veen lab achieves overlapping laser beam inside electron microscope.
The DETEM team has managed to spatially overlap a fiber-coupled nanosecond laser beam (3 ns, 532 nm), focused to a spot of ~5 um, with...
Van der Veen lab receives NSF CAREER award!
The van der Veen lab receives the NSF CAREER award for the proposal entitled "CAREER: Ultrafast Imaging and Spectroscopy of Cooperative...
Henry Wang joins the van der Veen lab
Junior UIUC Chemistry major Henry will working on simulations for XANES spectra of ZnTe/CdSe core-shell quantum dots. He is also working...
Omid Zandi joins the van der Veen lab!
Omid is joining us from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and will be responsible for the further development of our dynamic...
New Group Members!
The van der Veen group has added three new graduate students this semester: Conner Dykstra from Northwestern, Ryan Cornelius from St....
University of Illinois Celebrates 150 Year Anniversary!
A video featuring the van der Veen group was shown during the sesquicentennial celebration. Cecilia had dinner with Nobel Laureate,...