Xavier HENNING

Postdoctoral fellow, Organic Materials (DMO)xavier.henning@ipcms.unistra.fr

Tél: /Bureau: 2037

Research background

2020 : 1^st year Master internship at ICUBE, Strasbourg, France, on mechanical models describing the behaviour of composite materials made of natural fibers. Made under the supervision of Nadia Bahlouli.
2021 : 2^nd year Master internship at the IPCMS, Strasbourg, France, on the use of an AFM to characterize the properties of oxides ferroelectric thin films at the nanoscale. Made under the surpervision of Mircea V. Rastei.
2021 – 2024 : Join the IPCMS (Strasbourg, France) as a PhD student in the DMO and DCMI departments, under the supervision of Aziz Dinia and Mircea V. Rastei.
2022, 2023, 2024 : I presented my research work at the EMRS Spring Meeting in Strasbourg, France.
July – August 2023 : I realized a two month internship at the Physics Department of the University of Warwick, UK, under the supervision of Marin Alexe.

Academic background

2016 – 2019 : Degree in Physics – Faculté de Physique et Ingénierie de Strasbourg, France.
2019 – 2021 : Master’s Degree in Materials and Nanosciences – Faculté de Physique et Ingénierie de Strasbourg, France.
2021 – 2024 : PhD student at the IPCMS (Strasbourg, France) on the topic “Photovoltaic, light absorption and plasmonic effects in hybrid multilayers systems investigated at the nanometer scale”.
February – March 2025 : Postdoctorate fellow at the IPCMS (Strasbourg, France) pursuing research surrounding my PhD project.

Current researches

I am dedicated to the study of local photovoltaic and light-induced effects in oxides ferroelectric thin films made of BFCO by using a modified AFM setup.

Publications

X. Henning, L. Schlur, L. Wendling, T. Fix, S. Colis, A. Dinia, M. Alexe, and M. V. Rastei, Interfacial photovoltaic effects in ferroelectric Bi₂FeCrO₆ thin films, Phys. Rev. Mater. 9, 024403 (2025).
X. Henning, K. Alhada-Lahbabi, D. Deleruyelle, B. Gautier, L. Schlur, T. Fix, S. Colis, A. Dinia, and M. V. Rastei, Oxygen vacancy effects on polarization switching of ferroelectric Bi₂FeCrO₆ thin films, Phys. Rev. Mater. 8, 054416 (2024).
M. D. Pichois, X. Henning, M. A. Hurier, M. Vomir, A. Barsella, L. Mager, B. Donnio, J. L. Gallani, and M. V. Rastei, Photovoltaic and Photothermal Effects Induced by Visible Laser Radiation in Atomic Force Microscopy Probes, Ultramicroscopy 241, 113601 (2022).
L. Wendling, X. Henning, F. Roulland, M. Lenertz, G. Versini, L. Schlur, U. Chung, A. Dinia, S. Colis, and M. V. Rastei, Structural Properties and Polarization Switching of Epitaxial Bi2FeCrO6 Thin Films Grown on La_2/3Sr_1/3MnO₃/SrTiO₃ (111) Substrates, Thin Solid Films 757, 139384 (2022).