Publications by Frank van Mourik

Ultrafast photoelectron spectroscopy of photoexcited aqueous ferrioxalate

Majed Chergui, Michele Puppin, Frank van Mourik, 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, 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

Oleg Yazyev, Fabrizio Carbone, Frank van Mourik, Christopher Alexander Arrell, Edoardo Baldini, 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

Harmonium: An Ultrafast Vacuum Ultraviolet Facility

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

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

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

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

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

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, Natalia Nagornova, Frank van Mourik, Edoardo Baldini, Thomas Charles Henry Rossi, Malte Oppermann, Tania Palmieri, Lars-Hendrik Mewes, 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

Fabrizio Carbone, Edoardo Baldini, Frank van Mourik, Christopher Alexander Arrell, 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

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

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

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, Hua Zhang, Christopher Alexander Arrell, 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