Dr Ludovic Rapp

Dr Ludovic Rapp
Department Laser Physics Centre
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Office John Carver 3 16A

Grants and awards

  • New Landscape of non-equilibrium material phases with exotic properties ($571.500),
    A. V. Rode, S. Juodkazis, J. Williams, D. Golberg, C. J. Pickard, B. Haberl, W. Yang, L. Rapp
  • Scientific Mobility Program from the Embassy of France in Australia, ($2,500)
  • Endeavour Research fellowship from the Australian government by Australian Endeavour Award ($23,500)

  • Thesis prize of the University of Mediterranean, 2011
  • Prize for the best poster presentation, E-MRS, Nice, 2011
  • Prize for the best poster presentation, GCL-HPL, Lisbon, 2008

 

 

Research interests

  • Application of short-pulse laser-matter interaction phenomena in nanotechnology and micromachining
  • Ultrafast dynamics in solid, fs-laser interraction inside transparent and non-transparent materials
  • Nanomaterials, nanoparticules materials and nanostructures

Biography

Dr Ludovic Rapp is a Research Fellow at Laser Physics Centre (LPC) at the Australian National University (ANU). Ludovic has a strong background in ultra-fast laser interaction with matter, ultra-fast micromachining and expertise in beam shaping. His research work at ANU developing an ultrafast laser induced confined microexplosion method led to the discovery of two new high-density phases of Silicon, published in Nature Communications with his name as a first author. His research interest also includes nanostructures, chemistry, as well as crystallography. He has strong experimental and multidisciplinary skills such as material analysis techniques (SEM, TEM, FIB, AFM and Raman spectroscopy). Ludovic won a number of competitive funding such as the ARC Discovery Grant in 2017, the Endeavour Research Fellowship from Australian Government in 2011 and the Scientific Mobility Program by the Embassy of France in Australia in 2013, and was awarded a PhD thesis prize by the Mediterranean University of France in 2011.

 

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Publication highlights

  1. L. Rapp, B. Haberl, C.J. Pickard, J.E. Bradby, E.G. Gamaly, J.S.Williams, S. Juodkazis,A.V. Rode

    Experimental evidence of new tetragonal polymorphs of silicon formed through ultrafast laser induced confined micro explosion

    Nature Communication 6:7555 (2015) 

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8555


    A recent study demonstrating the formation of two novel metastable Si phases by the ultrafast laser induced confined microexplosion method, predicted theoretically but never observed in nature or in laboratory experiments. Theoretical prediction of four more new Si-allotropes with 32 atoms in a primitive cell, two tetragonal and two monoclinical.

  2. L. Rapp,A.K. Diallo,A.P.Alloncle, C.Videlot-Ackermann, F. Fages, P. Delaporte Pulsed-Laser Printing of Organic Thin-Film Transistors,
    Applied Physics Letters 95, 171109 (2009)
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3255011


    The first demonstration of the fabrication of organic thin-film transistor using the laser forward transfer technique.


  3. L. Rapp, R. Meyer, R. Giust, L. Furfaro, J. Dudley, F. Courvoisier

    High aspect ratio, polarisation-shaped, micro explosions in the bulk of sapphire generated by femtosecond Bessel beams
    Scientific report 6 34286 (2016)
    https://doi.org/10.1038/srep34286

    A very recent study demonstrating the creation of high aspect ratio nanochannels inside sapphire crystal using Bessel beam, opening novel perpectives for laser processing and new materials synthesis by laser-induced compression.


  4. L. Rapp, J.Ailuno,A.P.Alloncle, P. Delaporte
    Pulsed-laser printing of silver nanoparticles ink: control of morphological properties
    Optics Express, 19 22 (2011) 21563-21574
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.19.021563


    A significant study that demonstrated the control of the morphological properties of liquid materials during the laser printing.

Education

Ph.D. of Physics and Materials Science, 2007- 2010
With high honours, University of Mediterranean, LP3 laboratory, Marseille, France

Recent publications

  1. A. Gil-Villalba, R. Meyer, R. Giust, L. Rapp, C. Billet, F. Courvoisier

    Single shot femtosecond laser nano-ablation of CVD monolayer graphene
    Scientific report (2017)

  2. L. Rapp, R. Meyer, L. Furfaro, C. Billet, R. Giust, F. Courvoisier
 High speed cleaving of crystals with ultrafast Bessel beams
    Optics Express 25 8 9312(2017)
    https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.25.009312

  3. L. Rapp, R. Meyer, R. Giust, L. Furfaro, J. Dudley, F. Courvoisier

    High aspect ratio, polarisation-shaped, micro explosions in the bulk of sapphire generated by femtosecond Bessel beams
    Scientific report 6 34286 (2016)
    https://doi.org/10.1038/srep34286

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