Home

Person

Frank van Mourik

This person has left EPFL

About
Privacy
Disclaimer

Graph Chatbot

Related publications (54)

Page 2 of 3

Harmonium: An Ultrafast Vacuum Ultraviolet Facility

Majed Chergui, Marco Grioni, Marcel Drabbels, Frank van Mourik, Alberto Crepaldi, Christopher Alexander Arrell, Gianmarco Gatti, Andrew Daniel Bonnar Clark, José Javier Pancracio Ojeda Andara, Luca Longetti, Silvan Dino Marcos Roth

Harmonium is a vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) photon source built within the Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS). Utilising high harmonic generation, photons from 20-110 eV are available to conduct steady-state or ultrafast photoelectron and photoion s ...

Swiss Chemical Soc2017

Time-Resolved Photodynamics of Triangular-Shaped Silver Nanoplates

Majed Chergui, Frank van Mourik, Andrea Callegari, Luigi Bonacina, Camilla Bonati

The authors measured the ultrafast response of triangular silver nanoparticles upon femtosecond excitation of their plasmon resonance. After a fast electron relaxation, the signature of a bimodal mech. vibration of the particle is apparent as a spectral mo ...

2006

Raman-induced signals in optical Kerr effect measurements of water with elliptically polarized pulses

Majed Chergui, Frank van Mourik, Erwin Portuondo Campa

In 2-color optical Kerr effect measurements of water, addnl. signals can occur in the pulse overlap region if the energy difference between pump and probe pulses approaches the Raman resonance of the OH-stretch vibration. These features can be understood b ...

2006

A simple electron time-of-flight spectrometer for ultrafast vacuum ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy of liquid solutions

Majed Chergui, Frank van Mourik, Christopher Alexander Arrell, José Javier Pancracio Ojeda Andara

We present a simple electron time of flight spectrometer for time resolved photoelectron spectroscopy of liquid samples using a vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) source produced by high-harmonic generation. The field free spectrometer coupled with the time-preservi ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

Linear dichroism of CdSe nanodots: Large anisotropy of the band-gap absorption induced by ground-state dipole moments

Majed Chergui, Frank van Mourik

The authors measured the elec. field induced linear dichroism for a wide range of sizes of CdSe nanocrystals. Large ground-state dipole moments were obsd., esp. for the smallest crystals. In these, the authors found a very large anisotropy of the absorptio ...

2008

Tryptophan-to-heme electron transfer in ferrous myoglobins

Majed Chergui, Frank van Mourik, Gerald Auböck, Andre Al Haddad, Roberto Monni

It was recently demonstrated that in ferric myoglobins (Mb) the fluorescence quenching of the photoexcited tryptophan 14 (*Trp(14)) residue is in part due to an electron transfer to the heme porphyrin (porph), turning it to the ferrous state. However, the ...

National Academy of Sciences2015

Broadband femtosecond fluorescence up-conversion and photon echo experiments in the UV

Majed Chergui, Frank van Mourik, Andrea Cannizzo, Olivier Christian Bräm, Ahmad Ajdar Zadeh Oskouei

The fs-time-resolved study of a small UV dye in different solvents with fluorescence up-conversion and photon-echo techniques in the UV range provides new insight in cooling relaxation and solvation dynamics of non-polar molecules in polar solvents. ...

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2009

Ultrafast Tryptophan-to-Heme Electron Transfer in Myoglobins Revealed by UV 2D Spectroscopy

Majed Chergui, Frank van Mourik, Gerald Auböck, Cristina Consani

Tryptophan is commonly used to study protein structure and dynamics, such as protein folding, as a donor in fluorescence resonant energy transfer (FRET) studies. By using ultra-broadband ultrafast two-dimensional (2D) spectroscopy in the ultraviolet (UV) a ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2013

Liquid dynamics in ZrO2 nanoporous films

Majed Chergui, Frank van Mourik, Erwin Portuondo Campa

Time-resolved Optical Kerr Effect (OKE) measurements were used to det. the orientational dynamics of water and acetonitrile in the bulk and in pores of ZrO2 nanostructured films. The expts. were performed with a home-built OKE microscope, capable of provid ...

2007

Spectral and dynamical characterization of multiexcitons in colloidal CdSe semiconductor quantum dots

Majed Chergui, Frank van Mourik, Goran Zgrablic, Camilla Bonati

Femtosecond photoluminescence (PL) up-conversion studies in polychromatic mode and laser-power-dependence studies of the PL were carried out on colloidal solutions of CdSe quantum dots with diameters ranging from 2.4 to 4 nm. The main features of the spect ...

2005

Harmonium: A pulse preserving source of monochromatic extreme ultraviolet (30–110 eV) radiation for ultrafast photoelectron spectroscopy of liquids

Hua Zhang, Majed Chergui, Frank van Mourik, Christopher Alexander Arrell, José Javier Pancracio Ojeda Andara, Jakob Grilj, Lars-Hendrik Mewes

A tuneable repetition rate extreme ultraviolet source (Harmonium) for time resolved photoelectron spectroscopy of liquids is presented. High harmonic generation produces 30-110 eV photons, with fluxes ranging from similar to 2 x 10(11) photons/s at 36 eV t ...

Amer Inst Physics2016

Coherent generation of symmetry-forbidden phonons by light-induced electron-phonon interactions in magnetite

Oleg Yazyev, Fabrizio Carbone, Frank van Mourik, Edoardo Baldini, Christopher Alexander Arrell, Andreas Helmut Christian Mann, Simone Borroni

Symmetry breaking across phase transitions often causes changes in selection rules and emergence of optical modes which can be detected via spectroscopic techniques or generated coherently in pump-probe experiments. In second-order or weakly first-order tr ...

Amer Physical Soc2017

Subpicosecond near-infrared fluorescence upconversion study of relaxation processes in PbSe quantum dots

Majed Chergui, Frank van Mourik, Andrea Cannizzo, Camilla Bonati

The (sub)-ps relaxation processes in PbSe quantum dots of different sizes were measured by near-IR luminescence upconversion. The early-time spectra are characterized by emission from several low-lying excited states. The direct measurement of the Huang-Rh ...

2007

Femtosecond pump/supercontinuum-probe setup with 20 kHz repetition rate

Majed Chergui, Frank van Mourik, Andrea Cannizzo, Gerald Auböck, Cristina Consani, Roberto Monni

We developed a fast multichannel detection system for pump-probe spectroscopy, capable of detecting single shot super-continuum spectra at the repetition rate (10-50 kHz) of an amplified femtosecond laser system. By tandem pumping the amplifier with three ...

Amer Inst Physics2012

Multiphoton-Excited Luminescent Lanthanide Bioprobes: Two- and Three-Photon Cross Sections of Dipicolinate Derivatives and Binuclear Helicates

Majed Chergui, Jean-Claude Bünzli, Frank van Mourik, Andrea Cannizzo, Anne-Sophie Chauvin, Bo Song, Svetlana Eliseeva, Gerald Auböck

Multiphoton excited luminescent properties of water-soluble EuIII and TbIII complexes with derivatives of dipicolinic acid functionalized with a polyoxyethylene pendant arm and terminal groups, [Eu(LOMe)3]3-, [Eu(LNH2)3]3-, and [Tb(LOH)3]3-, as well as of ...

2010

Modelling of aqueous solvation of eosin Y at the rutile TiO2(110)/water interface

Majed Chergui, Frank van Mourik, Erwin Portuondo Campa

Mol. dynamics simulations at 298 K are used to study an aq. dissolved dye (eosin Y) adsorbed at the TiO2(1 1 0) surface to ext. static and dynamic information of solvation. Differences in the phys. behavior of the dye at the surface and in bulk H2O are com ...

Elsevier2006

Ultrafast X-ray Absorption Studies of the Structural Dynamics of Molecular and Biological Systems in Solution

Majed Chergui, Frank van Mourik, Thomas James Penfold, Van Thai Pham, Renske Marjan van der Veen, Mercedes Hannelore Rittmann-Frank, Frederico Alves Lima, Marco Eli Reinhard, Lotta Susanne Karlsson

We review our recent studies of excited state structures and dynamics of chemical and biological systems with pico- and femtosecond X-ray absorption spectroscopy in the liquid phase. ...

2011

A high-repetition rate scheme for synchrotron-based picosecond laser pump/x-ray probe experiments on chemical and biological systems in solution

Majed Chergui, Frank van Mourik, Van Thai Pham, Renske Marjan van der Veen, Mercedes Hannelore Rittmann-Frank, Frederico Alves Lima, Marco Eli Reinhard, Daniel Grollman, Lotta Susanne Karlsson

We present the extension of time-resolved optical pump/x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) probe experiments towards data collection atMHz repetition rates. The use of a high-power picosecond laser operating at an integer fraction of the repetition rate of ...

American Institute of Physics2011

Photon echo peak shift experiments in the UV: p-terphenyl in different solvents

Majed Chergui, Frank van Mourik, Andrea Cannizzo, Olivier Christian Bräm, Ahmad Ajdar Zadeh Oskouei

We present a new photon echo set-up operating in the UV range and our 1st results of photon echo peak shift (PEPS) expts. of a small non-polar dye mol., p-terphenyl (pTP), in 3 different solvents: EtOH, MeOH, and 2-propanol. The expts. show the feasibility ...

2008

Ultrafast UV photon echo peak shift and fluorescence up conversion studies of non-polar solvation dynamics

Majed Chergui, Frank van Mourik, Andrea Cannizzo, Olivier Christian Bräm, Ahmad Ajdar Zadeh Oskouei

The authors present photon echo peak shift and femtosecond fluorescence up-conversion studies of nonpolar solvation dynamics of a simple nonpolar dye p-terphenyl in EtOH and cyclohexane, using excitation in the UV range at 290 nm. The UV fluorescence up-co ...

2008