Develop different ultrafast techniques to study:
• the evolution of laser-induced plasmas
• ultrafast structural dynamics
Biographical Sketch:
• 2001.9-2005.7 B.Sc. in physics, Peking University, China.
• 2005.9-2011.5 Ph.D. in Optical Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science.
• 2011.7-2013.9 Visiting scholar, Brookhaven National Laboratory.
• 2011.7-2014.6 PostDoc, Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
• 2014.7- Assistant Researcher, Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Selected Publications:
Zhu, P., Zhu, Y., Hidaka, Y., Wu, L., Cao, J., Berger, H., Geck, J., Kraus, R., Pjerov, S., Shen, Y., Tobey, R. I., Hill, J. P., & Wang, X. J. (2015). Femtosecond time-resolved MeV electron diffraction. New Journal of Physics, 17(6), 063004.
Chen, L., Li, R., Chen, J., Zhu, P., Liu, F., Cao, J., Sheng, Z., & Zhang, J. (2015). Mapping transient electric fields with picosecond electron bunches. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(47), 14479.
Zhu, P., Chen, J., Li, R., Chen, L., Cao, J., Sheng, Z., & Zhang, J. (2013). Laser-induced short-range disorder in aluminum revealed by ultrafast electron diffuse scattering. Applied Physics Letters, 103(23), -.
Zhu, P., Cao, J., Zhu, Y., Geck, J., Hidaka, Y., Pjerov, S., Ritschel, T., Berger, H., Shen, Y., Tobey, R., Hill, J. P., & Wang, X. J. (2013). Dynamic separation of electron excitation and lattice heating during the photoinduced melting of the periodic lattice distortion in 2H-TaSe[sub 2]. Applied Physics Letters, 103(7), 071914.
Zhu, P., Zhang, Z., Chen, L., Zheng, J., Li, R., Wang, W., Li, J., Wang, X., Cao, J., Qian, D., Sheng, Z., & Zhang, J. (2010). Four-dimensional imaging of the initial stage of fast evolving plasmas. Applied Physics Letters, 97, 211501.
Zhu, P. F., Zhang, Z. C., Chen, L., Li, R. Z., Li, J. J., Wang, X., Cao, J. M., Sheng, Z. M., & Zhang, J. (2010). Ultrashort electron pulses as a four-dimensional diagnosis of plasma dynamics. Review of Scientific Instruments, 81, 103505.
Liang, W. X., Zhu, P. F., Wang, X., Nie, S. H., Zhang, Z. C., Rick, C., Cao, J. M., Sheng, Z. M., & Zhang, J. (2009). Ultrafast Electron Diffraction with Spatiotemporal Resolution of Atomic Motion. Chinese Physics Letters, 26, 020701.