Dmitriy Voronov leads the development of x-ray diffractive optics at the Advanced Light Source,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He earned a master’s degree in the Physics of Solids
from the National Technical University in Ukraine. As a researcher at the Institute for Single
Crystals of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, he studied microstructure, phase
composition, and the growth of high-temperature superconductors, aiming to achieve highly
textured ceramics with advanced superconductive characteristics. His doctoral research at the
National University focused on the fabrication and characterization of various x-ray multilayers
to achieve high reflectance in EUV and soft x-rays. He investigated the kinetics of interdiffusion
and phase transformations in multilayers during heating and laser irradiation. Additionally, he
worked on enhancing the temporal and thermal stability of multilayers by using diffusion barriers
at the interfaces. His work also included the development of multilayer-based components for x-
ray optics, such as multilayer Fresnel zone plates and sliced multilayer diffraction gratings. His
PhD thesis was titled “Phase Transformations in Sc/Si and Sc/W/Si/W multilayers.” Dmitriy
joined Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in 2007, focusing on the development of advanced x-ray
gratings for synchrotron applications. His expertise involves creating high-quality grazing
incidence and multilayer blazed gratings using nanofabrication techniques, including e-beam
lithography, nanoimprinting, plasma etching, anisotropic wet etching, thin film deposition, and
the investigation and optimization of multilayer growth on saw-tooth substrates.
