News

Ursula Keller wins “Swiss Nobel” Marcel Benoist Prize- for pioneering work in ultrafast lasers
MUST2022 Conference- a great success!
New scientific highlights- by MUST PIs Wörner, Chergui, and Richardson
FELs of Europe prize for Jeremy Rouxel- “Development or innovative use of advanced instrumentation in the field of FELs”
Ruth Signorell wins Doron prizefor pioneering contributions to the field of fundamental aerosol science
New FAST-Fellow Uwe Thumm at ETH- lectures on Topics in Femto- and Attosecond Science
International Day of Women and Girls in Science- SSPh asked female scientists about their experiences
New scientific highlight- by MUST PIs Milne, Standfuss and Schertler
EU XFEL Young Scientist Award for Camila Bacellar,beamline scientist and group leader of the Alvra endstation at SwissFEL
Prizes for Giulia Mancini and Rebeca Gomez CastilloICO/IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics & Ernst Haber 2021
Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to RESOLV Member Benjamin List- for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis
NCCR MUST at Scientifica 2021- Lightning, organic solar cells, and virtual molecules

Research publications 2014 A - K

Abrardi, L., Gusowski, M.A., and Feurer, T. (2014) High-fidelity all-fiber amplification of a gain-switched laser diode. Appl Opt 53, 4611-4615 (10.1364/ao.53.004611).

Ahmed, S., Savolainen, J., and Hamm, P. (2014) Detectivity enhancement in THz electrooptical sampling. Rev Sci Instrum 85, 013114 (10.1063/1.4862657).

Ahmed, S., Savolainen, J., and Hamm, P. (2014) The effect of the Gouy phase in optical-pump-THz-probe spectroscopy. Opt Express 22, 4256-4266 (10.1364/OE.22.004256).

Amstutz, V., Toghill, K.E., Powlesland, F., Vrubel, H., Comninellis, C., Hu, X.L., and Girault, H. (2014) Renewable hydrogen generation from a dual-circuit redox flow battery. Energy & Environmental Science 7, 2350-2358 (10.1039/C4EE00098F) .

Arrell, C.A., Ojeda, J., Sabbar, M., Okell, W.A., Witting, T., Siegel, T., Diveki, Z., Hutchinson, S., Gallmann, L., Keller, U., van Mourik, F., Chapman, R.T., Cacho, C., Rodrigues, N., Turcu, I.C.E., Tisch, J.W.G., Springate, E., Marangos, J.P., and Chergui, M. (2014) A simple electron time-of-flight spectrometer for ultrafast vacuum ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy of liquid solutions. Rev Sci Instrum 85, 103117 (10.1063/1.4899062).

Baykusheva, D., Kraus, P.M., Zhang, S.B., Rohringer, N., and Wörner, H.J. (2014) The sensitivities of high-harmonic generation and strong-field ionization to coupled electronic and nuclear dynamics. Faraday Discuss 171, 113-132 (10.1039/C4FD00018H).

Beaud, P., Caviezel, A., Mariager, S.O., Rettig, L., Ingold, G., Dornes, C., Huang, S.W., Johnson, J.A., Radovic, M., Huber, T., Kubacka, T., Ferrer, A., Lemke, H.T., Chollet, M., Zhu, D., Glownia, J.M., Sikorski, M., Robert, A., Wadati, H., Nakamura, M., Kawasaki, M., Tokura, Y., Johnson, S.L., and Staub, U. (2014) A time-dependent order parameter for ultrafast photoinduced phase transitions. Nat Mater 13, 923-927 (10.1038/nmat4046). See highlight elsewhere on this website.

Berti, N., Béjot, P., Wolf, J.P., and Faucher, O. (2014a) Molecular alignment and filamentation: Comparison between weak- and strong-field models. Phys Rev A 90, 053851 (10.1103/PhysRevA.90.053851).

Berti, N., Ettoumi, W., Kasparian, J., and Wolf, J.P. (2014b) Reversibility of laser filamentation. Opt Express 22, 21061-21068 (10.1364/OE.22.021061).

Bessire, B., Bernhard, C., Feurer, T., and Stefanov, A. (2014) Versatile shaper-assisted discretization of energy–time entangled photons. New J Phys 16, 033017 (10.1088/1367-2630/16/3/033017).

Bodi, A., and Hemberger, P. (2014) Imaging breakdown diagrams for bromobutyne isomers with photoelectron-photoion coincidence. Phys Chem Chem Phys 16, 505-515 (10.1039/c3cp53212g).

Boge, R., Heuser, S., Sabbar, M., Lucchini, M., Gallmann, L., Cirelli, C., and Keller, U. (2014) Revealing the time-dependent polarization of ultrashort pulses with sub-cycle resolution. Opt Express 22, 26967-26975 (10.1364/oe.22.026967).
Borek, J.A., Perakis, F., and Hamm, P. (2014) Testing for memory-free spectroscopic coordinates by 3D IR exchange spectroscopy. P Natl Acad Sci USA 111, 10462-10467 (10.1073/pnas.1406967111).

Bozkurt, E., Ashari, N., Browning, N., Brunk, E., Campomanes, P., Perez, M.A.S., and Röthlisberger, U. (2014) Lessons from Nature: Computational Design of Biomimetic Compounds and Processes. Chimia 68, 642-647 (10.2533/chimia.2014.642).

Brunner, F.D.J., Johnson, J.A., Grubel, S., Ferrer, A., Johnson, S.L., and Feurer, T. (2014) Distortion-free enhancement of terahertz signals measured by electro-optic sampling. I. Theory. J Opt Soc Am B 31, 904-910 (10.1364/josab.31.000904).

Brunner, F., Lee, S.-H., Kwon, O.P., and Feurer, T. (2014) THz generation by optical rectification of near-infrared laser pulses in the organic nonlinear optical crystal HMQ-TMS. Opt Mater Express 4, 1586-1592 (10.1364/OME.4.001586).

Campomanes, P., Neri, M., Horta, B.A.C., Rohrig, U.F., Vanni, S., Tavernelli, I., and Rothlisberger, U. (2014) Origin of the Spectral Shifts among the Early Intermediates of the Rhodopsin Photocycle. J Am Chem Soc 136, 3842-3851 (10.1021/ja411303v).

Capano, G., Chergui, M., Röthlisberger, U., Tavernelli, I., and Penfold, T.J. (2014) A Quantum Dynamics Study of the Ultrafast Relaxation in a Prototypical Cu(I)–Phenanthroline. J Phys Chem A 118, 9861-9869 (10.1021/jp509728m).

Capano, G., Penfold, T.J., Röthlisberger, U., and Tavernelli, I. (2014) A Vibronic Coupling Hamiltonian to Describe the Ultrafast Excited State Dynamics of a Cu(I)-Phenanthroline Complex. Chimia 68, 227-230 (10.2533/chimia.2014.227).

Castro-Palacio, J.C., Nagy, T., Bemish, R.J., and Meuwly, M. (2014) Computational study of collisions between O(P-3) and NO((2)Pi) at temperatures relevant to the hypersonic flight regime. J Chem Phys 141, 164319 (10.1063/1.4897263).

Cazade, P.A., Bereau, T., and Meuwly, M. (2014) Computational Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy without Maps: N-Methylacetamide in Water. J Phys Chem B 118, 8135-8147 (10.1021/jp5011692).

Chauvet, A., Tibiletti, T., Caffarri, S., and Chergui, M. (2014) A microfluidic flow-cell for the study of the ultrafast dynamics of biological systems. Rev Sci Instrum 85, 103118 (10.1063/1.4899120).

Chergui, M. (2014) Emerging photon technologies for chemical dynamics. Faraday Discuss 171, 11-40 (10.1039/c4fd00157e).

Consani, C., Auböck, G., Bräm, O., van Mourik, F., and Chergui, M. (2014) A cascade through spin states in the ultrafast haem relaxation of met-myoglobin. J Chem Phys 140, 025103 (10.1063/1.4861467).

Devereux, M., Gresh, N., Piquemal, J.P., and Meuwly, M. (2014a) A Supervised Fitting Approach to Force Field Parametrization with Application to the SIBFA Polarizable Force Field. J Comput Chem 35, 1577-1591 (10.1002/jcc.23661).

Devereux, M., Raghunathan, S., Fedorov, D.G., and Meuwly, M. (2014b) A Novel, Computationally Efficient Multipolar Model Employing Distributed Charges for Molecular Dynamics Simulations. J Chem Theory Comput 10, 4229-4241 (10.1021/ct500511t).

Devizis, A., Hertel, D., Meerholz, K., Gulbinas, V., and Moser, J.E. (2014) Time-independent, high electron mobility in thin PC61BM films: Relevance to organic photovoltaics. Org Electron 15, 3729-3734 (10.1016/j.orgel.2014.10.028).

Diamantis, P., Gonthier, J.F., Tavernelli, I., and Röthlisberger, U. (2014) Study of the Redox Properties of Singlet and Triplet Tris(2,2 '-bipyridine)ruthenium(II) ( Ru(bpy)(3) (2+)) in Aqueous Solution by Full Quantum and Mixed Quantum/Classical Molecular Dynamics Simulations. J Phys Chem B 118, 3950-3959 (10.1021/jp412395x).

Doemer, M., Maurer, P., Campomanes, P., Tavernelli, I., and Röthlisberger, U. (2014) Generalized QM/MM Force Matching Approach Applied to the 11-cis Protonated Schiff Base Chromophore of Rhodopsin. J Chem Theory Comput 10, 412-422 (10.1021/ct400697n).

Emaury, F., Saraceno, C.J., Debord, B., Ghosh, D., Diebold, A., Gerome, F., Südmeyer, T., Benabid, F., and Keller, U. (2014) Efficient spectral broadening in the 100-W average power regime using gas-filled kagome HC-PCF and pulse compression. Opt Lett 39, 6843-6846 (10.1364/ol.39.006843).

Fabiańska, J., Kassier, G., and Feurer, T. (2014) Split ring resonator based THz-driven electron streak camera featuring femtosecond resolution. Sci Rep 4, 5645 (10.1038/srep05645).

Feurer, T. (2014). Time Domain Laser Beam Propagation. In: Laser Beam Propagation (CRC Press), pp. 77-110 (10.1201/b16548-5).

Feurer, T. (2014). Characterization of Time Domain Pulses. In: Laser Beam Propagation (CRC Press), pp. 139-174 (10.1201/b16548-8).

Frei, F., Rondi, A., Espa, D., Mercuri, M.L., Pilia, L., Serpe, A., Odeh, A., Van Mourik, F., Chergui, M., Feurer, T., Deplano, P., Vlcek, A., and Cannizzo, A. (2014) Ultrafast electronic and vibrational relaxations in mixed-ligand dithione-dithiolato Ni, Pd, and Pt complexes. Dalton Trans 43, 17666-17676 (10.1039/c4dt01955e).

Ghadiri, E., Liu, B., Moser, J.-E., Grätzel, M., and Etgar, L. (2014) Investigation of Interfacial Charge Separation at PbS QDs/(001) TiO2 Nanosheets Heterojunction Solar Cell. Part Part Syst Char 32, 483-488 (10.1002/ppsc.201400210).

Greif, M., Castiglioni, L., Becker-Koch, D., Osterwalder, J., and Hengsberger, M. (2014) Acquisition of photoelectron diffraction patterns with a two-dimensional wide-angle electron analyzer. J Electron Spectrosc Relat Phenom 197, 30-36 (10.1016/j.elspec.2014.08.007).

Hamm, P. (2014) 2D-Raman-THz spectroscopy: A sensitive test of polarizable water models. J Chem Phys 141, 184201 (10.1063/1.4901216).

Hartmann, N., Helml, W., Galler, A., Bionta, M.R., Güntert, J., Molodtsov, S. L., Ferguson, K.R., Schorb, S., Swiggers, M.L., Carron, S., Bostedt, C., Castagna, J.C., Bozek, J., Glownia, J.M., Kane, D.J., Fry, A.R., White, W.E., Hauri, C.P., Feurer, T., and Coffee, R.N. (2014) Sub-femtosecond precision measurement of relative X-ray arrival time for free-electron lasers. Nature Photon 8, 706-709 (10.1038/nphoton.2014.164). See highlight elsewhere on this website.

Hassan, S., Schade, M., Shaw, C., Lévy, R., and Hamm, P. (2014) Response of Villin Headpiece-Capped Gold Nanoparticles to Ultrafast Laser Heating. J Phys Chem B, 7954-7962 (10.1021/jp500845f).

Hedin, F., Plattner, N., Doll, J.D., and Meuwly, M. (2014) Spatial Averaging: Sampling Enhancement for Exploring Configurational Space of Atomic Clusters and Biomolecules. J Chem Theory Comput 10, 4284-4296 (10.1021/ct500529w).

Hofmann, F.D., Devereux, M., Pfaltz, A., and Meuwly, M. (2014) Toward Force Fields for Atomistic Simulations of Iridium-Containing Complexes. J Comput Chem 35, 18-29 (10.1002/jcc.23460).

Hofmann, C., Landsman, A.S., Zielinski, A., Cirelli, C., Zimmermann, T., Scrinzi, A., and Keller, U. (2014) Interpreting electron-momentum distributions and nonadiabaticity in strong-field ionization. Phys Rev A 90, 043406 (10.1103/PhysRevA.90.043406).

Huang, J., Buchowiecki, M., Nagy, T., Vanicek, J., and Meuwly, M. (2014) Kinetic isotope effect in malonaldehyde determined from path integral Monte Carlo simulations. Phys Chem Chem Phys 16, 204-211 (10.1039/c3cp53698j).

Huang, J., and Meuwly, M. (2013). Force Field Treatment of Proton and Hydrogen Transfer in Molecular Systems. In: Tautomerism (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA), 253-276 (10.1002/9783527658824.ch10).

Huber, T., Mariager, S.O., Ferrer, A., Schäfer, H., Johnson, J.A., Grübel, S., Lübcke, A., Huber, L., Kubacka, T., Dornes, C., Laulhe, C., Ravy, S., Ingold, G., Beaud, P., Demsar, J., and Johnson, S.L. (2014) Coherent Structural Dynamics of a Prototypical Charge-Density-Wave-to-Metal Transition. Physical Review Letters 113, 026401 (10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.026401).

Johnson, J.A., Brunner, F.D.J., Grubel, S., Ferrer, A., Johnson, S.L., and Feurer, T. (2014) Distortion-free enhancement of terahertz signals measured by electro-optic sampling. II. Experiment. J Opt Soc Am B 31, 1035-1040 (10.1364/josab.31.001035).

Jordan, I., Redondo, A.B., Brown, M.A., Fodor, D., Staniuk, M., Kleibert, A., Worner, H.J., Giorgi, J.B., and van Bokhoven, J.A. (2014) Non-uniform spatial distribution of tin oxide (SnO2) nanoparticles at the air-water interface. Chem Commun 50, 4242-4244 (10.1039/c4cc00720d).

Juranic, P.N., Stepanov, A., Ischebeck, R., Schlott, V., Pradervand, C., Patthey, L., Radovic, M., Gorgisyan, I., Rivkin, L., Hauri, C.P., Monoszlai, B., Ivanov, R., Peier, P., Liu, J., Togashi, T., Owada, S., Ogawa, K., Katayama, T., Yabashi, M., and Abela, R. (2014) High-precision x-ray FEL pulse arrival time measurements at SACLA by a THz streak camera with Xe clusters. Opt Express 22, 30004-30012 (10.1364/OE.22.030004).

Juranić, P.N., Stepanov, A., Peier, P., Hauri, C.P., Ischebeck, R., Schlott, V., Radović, M., Erny, C., Ardana-Lamas, F., Monoszlai, B., Gorgisyan, I., Patthey, L., and Abela, R. (2014) A scheme for a shot-to-shot, femtosecond-resolved pulse length and arrival time measurement of free electron laser x-ray pulses that overcomes the time jitter problem between the FEL and the laser. J Inst 9,  P03006 (10.1088/1748-0221/9/03/P03006).

Katono, M., Wielopolski, M., Marszalek, M., Bessho, T., Moser, J.-E., Humphry-Baker, R., Zakeeruddin, S.M., and Grätzel, M. (2014) Effect of Extended π-Conjugation of the Donor Structure of Organic D–A−π–A Dyes on the Photovoltaic Performance of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. J Phys Chem C 118, 16486–16493 (10.1021/jp411504p).
 
Klenner, A., Schilt, S., Südmeyer, T., and Keller, U. (2014) Gigahertz frequency comb from a diode-pumped solid-state laser. Opt Express 22, 31008-31019 (10.1364/oe.22.031008).

Knorr, F.J., Malamen, D.J., McHale, J.L., Marchioro, A., and Moser, J.E. (2014) Two-electron photo-oxidation of betanin on titanium dioxide and potential for improved dye-sensitized solar energy conversion. Proc SPIE 9165, 91650N (10.1117/12.2063888).

Koch, M., Letrun, R., and Vauthey, E. (2014) Exciplex Formation in Bimolecular Photoinduced Electron-Transfer Investigated by Ultrafast Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy. J Am Chem Soc 136, 4066–4074 (10.1021/ja500812u).

Kraus, P.M., Baykusheva, D., and Wörner, H.J. (2014a) Two-Pulse Field-Free Orientation Reveals Anisotropy of Molecular Shape Resonance. Phys Rev Lett 113, 023001 (10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.023001).

Kraus, P.M., Baykusheva, D., and Wörner, H.J. (2014b) Two-pulse orientation dynamics and high-harmonic spectroscopy of strongly-oriented molecules. J Phys B: At Mol Opt Phys 47, 124030 (10.1088/0953-4075/47/12/124030).

Kubacka, T., Johnson, J.A., Hoffmann, M.C., Vicario, C., de Jong, S., Beaud, P., Grübel, S., Huang, S.W., Huber, L., Patthey, L., Chuang, Y.D., Turner, J.J., Dakovski, G.L., Lee, W.S., Minitti, M.P., Schlotter, W., Moore, R.G., Hauri, C.P., Koohpayeh, S.M., Scagnoli, V., Ingold, G., Johnson, S.L., and Staub, U. (2014) Large-Amplitude Spin Dynamics Driven by a THz Pulse in Resonance with an Electromagnon. Science 343, 1333-1336 (Science Express Online March 6 2014) (10.1126/science.1242862). See PSI Public and Media and the highlight on our website
NCCR MUST Office : ETHZ IQE/ULP-HPT H3 | Auguste-Piccard-Hof 1 | 8093 Zurich | E-Mail
The National Centres of Competence in Research (NCCR) are a research instrument of the Swiss National Science Foundation