Publications de Giulia Fulvia Mancini

A setup for hard x-ray time-resolved resonant inelastic x-ray scattering at SwissFEL

Majed Chergui, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Michele Puppin, Hui-Yuan Chen, Ludmila Maria Diniz Leroy, Rolf Baldwin Versteeg

We present a new setup for resonant inelastic hard x-ray scattering at the Bernina beamline of SwissFEL with energy, momentum, and temporal resolution. The compact R = 0.5 m Johann-type spectrometer can be equipped with up to three crystal analyzers and al ...

Aip Publishing2024

Separation of kinetic rate orders in extreme ultraviolet transient grating spectroscopy

Majed Chergui, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Serhii Polishchuk, Oliviero Cannelli, Michele Puppin, Camila Bacellar Cases Da Silveira, Rebecca Ann Ingle, Hugo Jean Baptiste Marroux

We present an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) transient grating (TG) experiment of the spinel Co3O4 compound using tuneable incident energies across the Co M-2,M-3-edge and a 395 nm probe pulse, detecting both the first and the second diffraction orders (SDOs). ...

IOP Publishing2024

Ultrafast Energy Transfer from Photoexcited Tryptophan to the Haem in Cytochrome c

Majed Chergui, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Dominik Kinschel, Oliviero Cannelli, Camila Bacellar Cases Da Silveira, Rebecca Ann Ingle, Jérémy Raymond Jean Maurice Rouxel, Yang Zhao

: We report femtosecond Fe K-edge absorption (XAS) and nonresonant X-ray emission (XES) spectra of ferric cytochrome C (Cyt c) upon excitation of the haem (>300 nm) or mixed excitation of the haem and tryptophan (

2023

Hard X-ray helical dichroism of disordered molecular media

Majed Chergui, Jérôme Lacour, Christian David, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Malte Oppermann, Dominik Kinschel, Oliviero Cannelli, Camila Bacellar Cases Da Silveira

Chirality is a structural property of molecules lacking mirror symmetry that has strong implications in diverse fields, ranging from life sciences to materials science. Chirality-sensitive spectroscopic methods, such as circular dichroism, exhibit weak sig ...

Nature Publishing Group2022

Quantifying Photoinduced Polaronic Distortions in Inorganic Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals

Majed Chergui, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Andre Al Haddad, Thomas Charles Henry Rossi, Nicola Colonna, Dominik Kinschel, James Michael Budarz, Oliviero Cannelli, Michele Puppin, Ludmila Maria Diniz Leroy

The development of next-generation perovskite-based optoelectronic devices relies critically on the understanding of the interaction between charge carriers and the polar lattice in out-of-equilibrium conditions. While it has become increasingly evident fo ...

2021

Hard X-ray transient grating spectroscopy on bismuth germanate

Majed Chergui, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Jérémy Raymond Jean Maurice Rouxel

Optical-domain transient grating (TG) spectroscopy is a versatile background-free four-wave-mixing technique that is used to probe vibrational, magnetic and electronic degrees of freedom in the time domain(1). The newly developed coherent X-ray free-electr ...

Nature Publishing Group2021

Femtosecond X-ray spectroscopy of haem proteins

Majed Chergui, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Dominik Kinschel, Boris Sorokin, Oliviero Cannelli, Camila Bacellar Cases Da Silveira

We discuss our recently reported femtosecond (fs) X-ray emission spectroscopy results on the ligand dissociation and recombination in nitrosylmyoglobin (MbNO) in the context of previous studies on ferrous haem proteins. We also present a preliminary accoun ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

Ultrafast electron localization in the EuNi2(Si0.21Ge0.79)(2) correlated metal

Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Jérémy Raymond Jean Maurice Rouxel

Ultrafast electron delocalization induced by a femtosecond laser pulse is a well-known process in which electrons are ejected from the ions within the laser pulse duration. However, very little is known about the speed of electron localization out of an el ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Strain wave pathway to semiconductor-to-metal transition revealed by time-resolved X-ray powder diffraction

Majed Chergui, Giulia Fulvia Mancini

One of the main challenges in ultrafast material science is to trigger phase transitions with short pulses of light. Here we show how strain waves, launched by electronic and structural precursor phenomena, determine a coherent macroscopic transformation p ...

Nature Research2021

X-ray absorption linear dichroism at the Ti K-edge of rutile (001) TiO2 single crystal

Majed Chergui, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Thomas Charles Henry Rossi, Dominik Kinschel, Oliviero Cannelli, Camila Bacellar Cases Da Silveira, Jérémy Raymond Jean Maurice Rouxel

X-ray absorption linear dichroism of rutile TiO2 at the Ti K-edge provides information about the electronic states involved in the pre-edge transitions. Here, linear dichroism with high energy resolution is analyzed in combination with ab initio finite dif ...

INT UNION CRYSTALLOGRAPHY2020

Femtosecond X-ray emission study of the spin cross-over dynamics in haem proteins

Majed Chergui, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Dominik Kinschel, James Michael Budarz, Boris Sorokin, Oliviero Cannelli, Camila Bacellar Cases Da Silveira, Jérémy Raymond Jean Maurice Rouxel

In haemoglobin the change from the low-spin (LS) hexacoordinated haem to the high spin (HS, S = 2) pentacoordinated domed deoxy-myoglobin (deoxyMb) form upon ligand detachment from the haem and the reverse process upon ligand binding are what ultimately dr ...

Nature Research2020

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

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

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

Taking a snapshot of the triplet excited state of an OLED organometallic luminophore using X-rays

Andrea Cannizzo, Martin Beck, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Camila Bacellar Cases Da Silveira, Samuel Menzi, Victoria Kabanova

OLED technology beyond small or expensive devices requires light-emitters, luminophores, based on earth-abundant elements. Understanding and experimental verification of charge transfer in luminophores are needed for this development. An organometallic mul ...

Nature Publishing Group2020

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

Lukas Stingelin, Majed Chergui, Paul Beaud, Thomas Schietinger, Christopher Alexander Arrell, Thomas Schmidt, Leonid Rivkin, Christoph Peter Hauri, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Rasmus Ischebeck, Eugenio Ferrari, Camila Bacellar Cases Da Silveira, Mike Seidel, Paolo Craievich, Sven Reiche

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

Towards X-ray transient grating spectroscopy

Majed Chergui, Paul Beaud, Christian David, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Erwan Fabrice Koch, Jérémy Raymond Jean Maurice Rouxel

The extension of transient grating spectroscopy to the x-ray regime will create numerous opportunities, ranging from the study of thermal transport in the ballistic regime to charge, spin, and energy transfer processes with atomic spatial and femtosecond t ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2019

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

Paul Beaud, Christopher Alexander Arrell, Christoph Peter Hauri, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, 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

Direct observation of photo-mechanical stiffness in alkanethiol-capped gold nanoparticles supracrystals by ultrafast small-angle electron diffraction

Fabrizio Carbone, Francesco Stellacci, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Javier Reguera Gomez, Francesco Pennacchio, Tatiana Latychevskaia

We demonstrate that ultrastiff bonding between nanoparticles can be engineered by ad hoc assemblies of ligands, reaching strengths comparable to that of strong covalent bonds. Our observation relies on femtosecond small-angle electron diffraction. ...

E D P SCIENCES2019

Local photo-mechanical stiffness revealed in gold nanoparticles supracrystals by ultrafast small-angle electron diffraction

Fabrizio Carbone, Francesco Stellacci, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Javier Reguera Gomez, Francesco Pennacchio, Tatiana Latychevskaia

We demonstrate that highly ordered two-dimensional crystals of ligand-capped gold nanoparticles display a local photo-mechanical stiffness as high as that of solids such as graphite. In out-of-equilibrium electron diffraction experiments, a strong temperat ...

2019

X-ray absorption linear dichroism at the Ti K edge of anatase TiO2 single crystals

Majed Chergui, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Thomas Charles Henry Rossi, Dominik Kinschel, Oliviero Cannelli, Camila Bacellar Cases Da Silveira, Jérémy Raymond Jean Maurice Rouxel

Anatase TiO2 (a-TiO2) exhibits a strong x-ray absorption linear dichroism in the pre-edge, the XANES and the EXAFS at the titanium K edge. In the pre-edge region, the behavior of the A1-A3 and B peaks originating from the 1s - 3d transitions is due to the ...

2019

Tabletop EUV Coherent Diffractive Imaging and Small Angle Scattering of Colloidal Crystals

Giulia Fulvia Mancini

We demonstrate full-field quantitative ptychographic imaging using tabletop high harmonics to visualize the extended structure of silica close-packed nanosphere multilayers with

E D P SCIENCES2019