Publications by Frank van Mourik

Ultrafast photoelectron spectroscopy of photoexcited aqueous ferrioxalate

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

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, Lars-Hendrik Mewes, José Javier Pancracio Ojeda Andara, Jakob Grilj, 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

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

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

Harmonium: An Ultrafast Vacuum Ultraviolet Facility

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

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

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

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

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

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

The LOUVRE Laboratory: State-of-the-Art Ultrafast Ultraviolet Spectroscopies for Molecular and Materials Science

Majed Chergui, Frank van Mourik, Natalia Nagornova, Lars-Hendrik Mewes, Thomas Charles Henry Rossi, Tania Palmieri, Edoardo Baldini, Malte Oppermann, Benjamin Bauer, Aurelio Oriana

We describe the facilities for ultraviolet studies in the femtosecond to nanosecond time domain. These facilities consist of: i) a set-up for deep-ultraviolet spectroscopy in the 260–380 nm range in both pump and probe pulses for transient absorption/refle ...

2017

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

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

Photo-induced oxidation of the uniquely liganded heme f in the cytochrome b(6)f complex of oxygenic photosynthesis

Frank van Mourik, Rachna Agarwal, Andre Al Haddad, Adrien Alexis Paul Chauvet

The ultrafast behavior of the ferrous heme f from the cytochrome b(6)f complex of oxygenic photosynthesis is revealed by means of transient absorption spectroscopy. Benefiting from the use of microfluidic technologies for handling the sample as well as fro ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

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

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

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

Laser-Assisted Photoelectric Effect from Liquids

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

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

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

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

Set-up for broadband Fourier-transform multidimensional electronic spectroscopy

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

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

Tryptophan-to-heme electron transfer in ferrous myoglobins

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

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

Photo-induced dynamics of the heme centers in cytochrome bc(1)

Majed Chergui, Frank van Mourik, Andre Al Haddad, Adrien Alexis Paul Chauvet

The ultrafast response of cytochrome bc1 is investigated for the first time, via transient absorption spectroscopy. The distinct redox potentials of both c(1)- and b-hemes allow for a clear differentiation of their respective signals. We find that while th ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015

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

Ultrafast electronic and vibrational relaxations in mixed-ligand dithione-dithiolato Ni, Pd, and Pt complexes

Majed Chergui, Frank van Mourik, Andrea Cannizzo, Ahmad Odeh

Ultrafast excited-state dynamics of planar Pt, Pd, and Ni dithione-dithiolato complexes were investigated by transient absorption spectroscopy on the femtosecond-picosecond timescale. All studied complexes show a common photobehaviour, although individual ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2014

A cascade through spin states in the ultrafast haem relaxation of met-myoglobin

Majed Chergui, Olivier Christian Bräm, Frank van Mourik, Cristina Consani, Gerald Auböck

We report on a study of the early relaxation processes of met-Myoglobin in aqueous solution, using a combination of ultrafast broadband fluorescence detection and transient absorption with a broad UV-visible continuum probe at different pump energies. Reco ...

American Institute of Physics2014

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

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

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

Energy transfer and relaxation mechanisms in Cytochrome c

Majed Chergui, Olivier Christian Bräm, Frank van Mourik, Andrea Cannizzo, Cristina Consani

Using broadband UV-vis femtosecond transient absorption and fluorescence up-conversion, we investigate the interaction between the haem moiety of ferric and ferrous Horse heart Cytochrome c and its single Tryptophan (Trp) residue and the energy dissipation ...

Elsevier2012