Roger W. Falcone

Falcone’s research involves the interaction of intense radiation with matter.  He has developed tools to understand matter subject to high fields, high temperatures, and high pressures.  This reveals both static and dynamic properties of materials taken to extreme conditions through illumination with intense, short laser pulses (leading to ionized matter) and high-energy pulses (leading to compressed matter). Specifically, this has led to greater understanding of the relative ionization state under defined high density and high temperature conditions. Tools include pulsed x-ray sources, ultrafast detectors, and techniques including inelastic x-ray scattering and imaging of materials at giga-Bar pressures and high densities.