Publications

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  • Douglas Garratt, Antonia Freibert, Kristjan Kunnus, David J. Hoffman, Matthew Bain, Benjamin I. Poulter, Christina Hampton, Georgi Dakovski, Giacomo Coslovich, Mina R. Bionta, Kacie J. Nelson, Oliver Alexander, Shubhadeep Biswas, Sonia Coriani, Felix Egun, Daniel Jost, Victoria Kabanova, Katharina Kubicek, Mate Kurucz, Amke Nimmrich, Hirohito Ogasawara, Debkumar Rana, Michael Sachs, Lingjia Shen, Zhaoyuan Yang, Zhong Yin, Hans Jakob Wörner, Oriol Vendrell, Jon P Marangos, Matthias Kling, Philippe Wernet, Erik T.J. Nibbering, Amy A Cordones, Nils Huse, Thomas J.A. Wolf, and Kelly Gaffney, "Ultrafast RIXS Reveals Excited State Orbital and Spin Character of Solvated Organic Molecules," ChemRxiv (2026) DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv.15004173/v1

  • David J. Hoffman, Douglas Garratt, Matthew Bain, Christina Y. Hampton, Benjamin I. Poulter, Jyoti Joshi, Giacomo Coslovich, Frank P. O'Dowd, Daniel P. DePonte, Alexander H. Reid, Lingjia Shen, Daniel Jost, Mina R. Bionta, Joshua J. Turner, Ming-Fu Lin, Philip Heimann, Stefan P. Moeller, Jake D. Koralek, Tyler Johnson, K. Ninh, Raybel Almeida, Adam Berges, Stephanie Fung, Shuai Li, Eetu Pelimanni, Amke Nimmrich, Munira Khalil, Linda Young, Thomas J.A. Wolf, Kristjan Kunnus, and Georgi L. Dakovski, "The chemRIXS Instrument for the LCLS-II X-Ray Free Electron Laser," Rev. Sci. Instr (to appear, 2026).

  • Phillip D. Keathley, Simon V. B. Jensen, Matthew D. Yeung, Mina R. Bionta, and Lars B. Madsen, "Uncovering Extreme Nonlinear Dynamics in Solids Through Time-Domain Field Analysis," Phys. Rev. B 107, 054302 (2022).

  • Marco Turchetti, Yujia Yang, Mina R. Bionta, Alberto Nardi, Luca Daniel, Karl K. Berggren, and Phillip D. Keathley, “Electron Emission Regimes of Planar Nano Vacuum Emitters” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 69, 3953 (2022).

  • Mina R. Bionta, Élissa Haddad, Adrien Leblanc, Vincent Gruson, Philippe Lassonde, Jérémie Chaillou, Nicolas Émond, Heide Ibrahim, Martin R. Otto, Álvaro Jiménez-Galán, Rui E. F. Silva, Misha Ivanov, Bardley J. Siwick, Mohamed Chaker, and François Légaré, “Tracking ultrafast solid-state dynamics using high harmonic spectroscopy,” Phys. Rev. Research 3, 023250 (2021).

  • Mina R. Bionta٭, Felix Ritzkowsky٭, Marco Turchetti٭, Yujia Yang, Dario Cattozzo Mor, William P. Putnam, Franz X. Kärtner, Karl K. Berggren, and Phillip D. Keathley, “On-chip sampling of optical fields with attosecond resolution,” Nat. Photonics 15, 456 (2021).
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  • Marco Turchetti, Mina R. Bionta, Yujia Yang, Felix Ritzkowsky, Denis Ricardo Candido, Michael Flatté, Karl K. Berggren, Phillip D. Keathley, “Impact of DC bias on Weak Optical-Field-Driven Electron Emission in Nano-Vacuum-Gap Detectors,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(3), 1009 (2021).

  • Murat Onen, Marco Turchetti, Brenden A. Butters, Mina R. Bionta, Phillip D. Keathley, Karl K. Berggren, “Single-Photon Single-Flux Coupled Detectors,” Nano Lett. 20(1), 664 (2020).

  • Wosik Cho, Sung In Hwang, Chang Hee Nam, Mina R. Bionta, Philippe Lassonde, Bruno E. Schmidt, Heide Ibrahim, François Légaré, and Kyung Taec Kim, “Universal pulse characterization of femtosecond laser pulses in the UV, visible, and mid-IR ranges,” Sci. Rep. 9, 16067 (2019).

  • A. Leblanc, P. Lassonde, S. Petit, J.-C. Delagnes, E. Haddad, G. Ernotte, M. R. Bionta, V. Gruson, B. E. Schmidt, H. Ibrahim, E. Cormier, and F. Légaré, “Phase-matching-free pulse retrieval based on transient absorption in solids,” Opt. Express 27(20), 28998 (2019).

  • M. R. Bionta, V. Wanie, V. Gruson, J. Chaillou, N. Émond, D. Lepage, P. Lassonde, L. DiMauro, M. Chaker and F. Légaré, “Probing the phase transition in VO2 using few-cycle, 1.8 μm pulses,” Phys. Rev. B 97(12), 125126 (2018).

  • Daniel Papp, Jonathan C. Wood, Vincent Gruson, Mina Bionta, Jan-Niclas Gruse, Eric Cormier, Zulfikar Najmudin, François Légaré, and Christos Kamperidis, “Laser wakefield acceleration with high-power, few-cycle mid-IR lasers,” Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A 909, 145 (2018).

  • V. Gruson, G. Ernotte, P. Lassonde, A. Laramée, M. R. Bionta, M. Chaker, L. DiMauro, P. B. Corkum , H. Ibrahim, B. E. Schmidt, and F. Légaré, “2.4 TW, two-cycle IR laser pulses via Frequency domain Optical Parametric Amplification,” Opt. Express 25(22), 27706 (2017).

  • M. R. Bionta, S. J. Weber, I. Blum, J. Mauchain, B. Chatel, and B. Chalopin, “Wavelength and shape dependent strong-field photoemission from silver nanotips,” New J. Phys. 10(10), 103010 (2016).

  • M. R. Bionta, B. Chalopin, A. Masseboeuf, and B. Chatel, “First results on laser-induced field emission from a CNT-based nanotip,” Ultramicroscopy 159(2), 152 (2015).

  • M. R. Bionta, N. Hartmann, M. Weaver, D. French, D. J. Nicholson, J. P. Cryan, J. M. Glownia, K. Baker, C. Bostedt, M. Chollet, Y. Ding, D. M. Fritz, A. R. Fry, D. J. Kane, J. Krzywinski, H. T. Lemke, M. Messerschmidt, S. Schorb, D. Zhu,W. E. White, and R. N. Coffee, “Spectral encoding method for measuring the relative arrival time between x-ray/optical pulses," Rev. Sci. Instrum. 85(8), 083116 (2014).

  • M. R. Bionta, B. Chalopin, J. P. Champeaux, S. Faure, A. Masseboeuf, P. Moretto-Capelle, and B. Chatel, “Laser-induced electron emission from a tungsten nanotip: identifying emission regimes using energy-resolved laser power dependencies,” J. Mod.Opt. 61(10), 833 (2014).

  • N. Hartmann, W. Helml, A. Galler, M. R. Bionta, J. Grünert, S. L. Molodtsov, K. R. Ferguson, S. Schorb, M. L. Swiggers, S. Carron, C. Bostedt, J.-C. Castagna, J. Bozek, J. M. Glownia, D. J. Kane, A. R. Fry, W. E. White, C. P. Hauri, T. Feurer, and R. N. Coffee, “Sub-femtosecond precision measurement of relative X-ray arrival time for free-electron lasers,” Nat. Photonics 8(9), 706 (2014).
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  • M. Harmand, R. Coffee, M. R. Bionta, M. Chollet, D. French, D. Zhu, D. M. Fritz, H. Lemke, N. Medvedev, B. Ziaja, S. Toleikis, and M. Cammarata, “Achieving few-femtosecond time-sorting at hard X-ray free electron lasers,” Nat. Photonics 7(3), 215 (2013).
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  • C. E. Graves, A. H. Reid, T. Wang, B. Wu, S. de Jong, K. Vahaplar, I. Radu, D. P. Bernstein, M. Messerschmidt, L. Müller, R. Coffee, M. Bionta, S.W. Epp, R. Hartmann, N. Kimmel, G. Hauser, A. Hartmann, P. Holl, H. Gorke, J. H. Mentink, A. Tsukamoto, A. Fognini, J. J. Turner, W. F. Schlotter, D. Rolles, H. Soltau, L. Strüder, Y. Acremann, A. V. Kimel, A. Kirilyuk, Th. Rasing, J. Stöhr, A. O. Scherz, and H. A. Dürr, “Nanoscale spin reversal by non-local angular momentum transfer following ultrafast laser excitation in ferrimagnetic GdFeCo,” Nat. Mater. 12(4), 293 (2013).
    Press: Nature Materials News & Views, SLAC News

  • S. Schorb, T. Gorkhover, J. P. Cryan, J. M. Glownia, M. R. Bionta, R. N. Coffee, B. Erk, R. Boll, D. Rolles, A. Rudenko, M. Swiggers, S. Carron, J. D. Bozek, M. Messerschmidt, W. F. Schlotter, and C. Bostedt, “X-ray optical cross correlator for gas phase experiments at the LCLS,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 100(12), 121107 (2012).

  • Mina R. Bionta, H. T. Lemke, J. P. Cryan, J. M. Glownia, C. Bostedt, M. Cammarata, J.-C. Castagna, Y. Ding, D. M. Fritz, A. R. Fry, J. Krzywinski, M. Messerschmidt, S. Schorb, M. L. Swiggers, and R. N. Coffee, “Spectral encoding of x-ray/optical relative delay,” Opt. Express 19(21), 21855 (2011).
    Selected to be in the Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics 6(11).