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Ultrafast photoelectron spectroscopy of photoexcited aqueous ferrioxalate

Majed Chergui, Frank van Mourik, Michele Puppin, Christopher Alexander Arrell, José Javier Pancracio Ojeda Andara, Luca Longetti, Thomas Roland Barillot

The photochemistry of metal-organic compounds in solution is determined by both intra- and inter-molecular relaxation processes after photoexcitation. Understanding its prime mechanisms is crucial to optimise the reactive paths and control their outcome. H ...

2021

Photoemission from non-polar aromatic molecules in the gas and liquid phase

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

The photoelectron spectra of both liquid and gas phase aromatic molecules are reported. The spectra were obtained using a 34.1 eV source produced by high harmonic generation and analysed with the help of high-level ab initio simulations using the reflectio ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Charge migration and charge transfer in molecular systems

Ursula Röthlisberger, Majed Chergui, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Joël Teuscher, Andrea Cannizzo, Christopher Alexander Arrell, Natalie Renuka Banerji, Elisa Liberatore, Pablo Lopez Tarifa

The transfer of charge at the molecular level plays a fundamental role in many areas of chemistry, physics, biology and materials science. Today, more than 60 years after the seminal work of R. A. Marcus, charge transfer is still a very active field of res ...

2017

Spin cascade and doming in ferric hemes: Femtosecond X-ray absorption and X-ray emission studies

Majed Chergui, Wojciech Gawelda, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Christopher Alexander Arrell, Frederico Alves Lima, Oliviero Cannelli, Dominik Kinschel, Camila Bacellar Cases Da Silveira, Jérémy Raymond Jean Maurice Rouxel, Rebecca Ann Ingle

The structure-function relationship is at the heart of biology, and major protein deformations are correlated to specific functions. For ferrous heme proteins, doming is associated with the respiratory function in hemoglobin and myoglobins. Cytochrome c (C ...

National Academy of Sciences2020

Changes in the Silanol Protonation State Measured In Situ at the Silica-Aqueous Interface

Majed Chergui, Christopher Alexander Arrell, Mariateresa Scarongella

Recent nanomedical applications have again highlighted the significance of silica surface chemistry in solution. Here, we report in situ electronic structure measurements at the silica-aqueous interface as a function of pH for nanoparticles (NPs) of 7, 12, ...

2012

Charge-transfer and impulsive electronic-to-vibrational energy conversion in ferricyanide: ultrafast photoelectron and transient infrared studies'

Majed Chergui, Christopher Alexander Arrell, José Javier Pancracio Ojeda Andara, Luca Longetti

The photophysics of ferricyanide in H2O, D2O and ethylene glycol was studied upon excitation of ligand-to-metal charge transfer (LMCT) transitions by combining ultrafast photoelectron spectroscopy (PES) of liquids and transient vibrational spectroscopy. Up ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2017

Time-resolved ARPES at LACUS: Band Structure and Ultrafast Electron Dynamics of Solids

Majed Chergui, Helmuth Berger, Arnaud Magrez, Marco Grioni, Frank van Mourik, Alberto Crepaldi, Christopher Alexander Arrell, Philippe Bugnon, Gianmarco Gatti, José Javier Pancracio Ojeda Andara, Silvan Dino Marcos Roth

The manipulation of the electronic properties of solids by light is an exciting goal, which requires knowledge of the electronic structure with energy, momentum and temporal resolution. Time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (tr-ARPES) is the ...

2017

Experimental station Bernina at SwissFEL: condensed matter physics on femtosecond time scales investigated by X-ray diffraction and spectroscopic methods

Christoph Peter Hauri, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Christopher Alexander Arrell, Jochen Rittmann

The Bernina instrument at the SwissFEL Aramis hard X-ray free-electron laser is designed for studying ultrafast phenomena in condensed matter and material science. Ultrashort pulses from an optical laser system covering a large wavelength range can be used ...

International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)2019

Laser-Assisted Photoelectric Effect from Liquids

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

The laser-assisted photoelectric effect from liquid surfaces is reported for the first time. Photoelectrons generated by 35.6 eV radiation from a liquid microjet of water under vacuum are dressed with (h) over bar omega = 1.55 eV laser field. The subsequen ...

American Physical Society2016

Probing the electron-phonon interaction in correlated systems with coherent lattice fluctuation spectroscopy

Fabrizio Carbone, Frank van Mourik, Christopher Alexander Arrell, Edoardo Baldini, Andreas Helmut Christian Mann

Tailoring the properties of correlated oxides is accomplished by chemical doping, pressure, temperature, or magnetic field. Photoexcitation is a valid alternative to reach out-of-equilibrium states otherwise inaccessible. Here, we quantitatively estimate t ...

Amer Physical Soc2015

A versatile setup for ultrafast broadband optical spectroscopy of coherent collective modes in strongly correlated quantum systems

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

A femtosecond pump-probe setup is described that is optimised for broadband tran- sient reflectivity experiments on solid samples over a wide temperature range. By combining high temporal resolution and a broad detection window, this apparatus can investig ...

2016

Temporal broadening of attosecond photoelectron wavepackets from solid surfaces

Christopher Alexander Arrell

The response of solids to electromagnetic fields is of crucial importance in many areas of science and technology. Many fundamental questions remain to be answered about the dynamics of the photoexcited electrons that underpin this response, which can evol ...

Optical Soc Amer2015

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

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

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

The SwissFEL soft X-ray free-electron laser beamline: Athos

Christoph Bostedt, Christopher Alexander Arrell, Rasmus Ischebeck, Eugenio Ferrari, Thomas Schmidt

The SwissFEL soft X-ray free-electron laser (FEL) beamline Athos will be ready for user operation in 2021. Its design includes a novel layout of alternating magnetic chicanes and short undulator segments. Together with the APPLE X architecture of undulator ...

2019

Clocking the onset of bilayer coherence in a high-Tc cuprate

Fabrizio Carbone, Frank van Mourik, Edoardo Baldini, Christopher Alexander Arrell, Andreas Helmut Christian Mann

In cuprates, a precursor state of superconductivity is speculated to exist above the critical temperature T-c. Here we show via a combination of far-infrared ellipsometry and ultrafast broadband optical spectroscopy that signatures of such a state can be o ...

Amer Physical Soc2017

Set-up for broadband Fourier-transform multidimensional electronic spectroscopy

Majed Chergui, Frank van Mourik, Christopher Alexander Arrell, Gerald Auböck, José Javier Pancracio Ojeda Andara, Adrien Alexis Paul Chauvet, Andre Al Haddad

We present a compact passively phase-stabilized ultra-broadband 2D Fourier transform setup. A gas (argon)-filled hollow core fiber pumped by an amplified Ti:Al2O3 laser is used as a light source providing spectral range spanning from 420 to 900 nm. Sub-10- ...

Optical Society of America2015

A compact and cost-effective hard X-ray free-electron laser driven by a high-brightness and low-energy electron beam

Majed Chergui, Christoph Peter Hauri, Christopher Alexander Arrell, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Leonid Rivkin, Rasmus Ischebeck, Eugenio Ferrari, Camila Bacellar Cases Da Silveira, Mike Seidel, Thomas Schmidt

We present the first lasing results of SwissFEL, a hard X-ray free-electron laser (FEL) that recently came into operation at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. SwissFEL is a very stable, compact and cost-effective X-ray FEL facility driven by a lo ...

Nature Publishing Group2020