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Hans A. Bechtel

Staff Scientist, Program Lead
Infrared, Photon Science Operations

Contact

habechtel@lbl.govMailstop: 15R0100510-486-7519
Location(s): 015-0354

Websites

Responsibilities

Infrared Program Lead
Beamlines 1.4, 2.4 and 5.4

ALS IDEA Committee, Chair

Safety Advisory Committee, ALS Representative

Biographical Information

  • Infrared Beamlines, Advanced Light Source (since 2007)
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2004-2007)
  • Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, Stanford University (2004)
  • B.S.,  summa cum laude, Chemistry and Computer Science / Mathematics, Furman University (1999)

Research Interests

Infrared instrumentation

IR nanospectroscopy of novel samples

Extraterrestrial materials

Selected Publications

see my Google Scholar Profile

  1. Xin He, Jonathan M Larson, Hans A Bechtel, Robert Kostecki.”In situ infrared nanospectroscopy of the local processes at the Li/polymer electrolyte interface” Nature communications 13, 1398 (2022)  DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29103-z  ALS Brief
  2. Shang-Jie Yu, Yue Jiang, John A Roberts, Markus A Huber, Helen Yao, Xinjian Shi, Hans A Bechtel, Stephanie N Gilbert Corder, Tony F Heinz, Xiaolin Zheng, Jonathan A Fan.  “Ultrahigh-Quality Infrared Polaritonic Resonators Based on Bottom-Up-Synthesized van der Waals Nanoribbons” ACS Nano 16, 3027-3035  (2022) DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c10489  ALS Highlight
  3. Hans A. Bechtel, Samuel C. Johnson, Omar Khatib, Eric A. Muller, Markus B. Raschke. “Synchrotron infrared nano-spectroscopy and -imaging”  Surface Science Reports 75, 100493 (2020) DOI: 10.1016/j.surfrep.2020.100493
  4. Yi-Hsien Lu, Jonathan M Larson, Artem Baskin, Xiao Zhao, Paul D Ashby, David Prendergast, Hans A Bechtel, Robert Kostecki, Miquel Salmeron. “Infrared Nanospectroscopy at the Graphene–Electrolyte Interface”  Nano Letters 19 (8), 5388-5393 (2019).  DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b01897 
  5.  Omar Khatib, Hans A. Bechtel, Michael C. Martin, Markus B. Raschke, G. Lawrence Carr.  “Far infrared synchrotron near-field nano-imaging and-spectroscopy” ACS Photonics 57, 2773-2779 (2018). DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.8b00565
  6. Hans A. Bechtel, Eric A. Muller, Robert L. Olmon, Michael C. Martin, Markus B. Raschke, “Ultrabroadband infrared nanospectroscopic imaging”  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111, 7191–7196 (2014).  DOI:10.1073/pnas.1400502111
  7. Andrew J. Westphal et al. “Evidence for interstellar origin of seven dust particles collected by the Stardust spacecraft” Science, 345, 786-791 ( 2014). DOI:10.1126/science.1252496
  8. Hoi-Ying N. Holman, Hans A. Bechtel, Zhao Hao, Michael C. Martin, “Synchrotron IR spectromicroscopy: chemistry of living cells.”Anal. Chem., 82, 8757-8765 (2010).  doi:10.1021/ac100991d