DOE PAGES title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Elucidating ultrafast electron dynamics at surfaces using extreme ultraviolet (XUV) reflection–absorption spectroscopy

Abstract

Here we review the recent development of extreme ultraviolet reflection–absorption (XUV-RA) spectroscopy. This method combines the benefits of X-ray absorption spectroscopy, such as element, oxidation, and spin state specificity, with surface sensitivity and ultrafast time resolution, having a probe depth of only a few nm and an instrument response less than 100 fs. Using this technique we investigated the ultrafast electron dynamics at a hematite (α-Fe2O3) surface. Surface electron trapping and small polaron formation both occur in 660 fs following photoexcitation. These kinetics are independent of surface morphology indicating that electron trapping is not mediated by defects. Instead, small polaron formation is proposed as the likely driving force for surface electron trapping. We also show that in Fe2O3, Co3O4, and NiO, band gap excitation promotes electron transfer from O 2p valence band states to metal 3d conduction band states. In addition to detecting the photoexcited electron at the metal M2,3-edge, the valence band hole is directly observed as transient signal at the O L1-edge. The size of the resulting charge transfer exciton is on the order of a single metal–oxygen bond length. Spectral shifts at the O L1-edge correlate with metal–oxygen bond covalency, confirming the relationship between valence band hybridizationmore » and the overpotential for water oxidation. Furthermore, these examples demonstrate the unique ability to measure ultrafast electron dynamics with element and chemical state resolution using XUV-RA spectroscopy. Accordingly, this method is poised to play an important role to reveal chemical details of previously unseen surface electron dynamics.« less

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division
OSTI Identifier:
1594152
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1434139
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0014051; FA9550-15-1-0204
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
ChemComm
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 54; Journal Issue: 34; Journal ID: ISSN 1359-7345
Publisher:
Royal Society of Chemistry
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Citation Formats

Biswas, Somnath, Husek, Jakub, and Baker, L. Robert. Elucidating ultrafast electron dynamics at surfaces using extreme ultraviolet (XUV) reflection–absorption spectroscopy. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1039/c8cc01745j.
Biswas, Somnath, Husek, Jakub, & Baker, L. Robert. Elucidating ultrafast electron dynamics at surfaces using extreme ultraviolet (XUV) reflection–absorption spectroscopy. United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8cc01745j
Biswas, Somnath, Husek, Jakub, and Baker, L. Robert. Fri . "Elucidating ultrafast electron dynamics at surfaces using extreme ultraviolet (XUV) reflection–absorption spectroscopy". United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8cc01745j. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1594152.
@article{osti_1594152,
title = {Elucidating ultrafast electron dynamics at surfaces using extreme ultraviolet (XUV) reflection–absorption spectroscopy},
author = {Biswas, Somnath and Husek, Jakub and Baker, L. Robert},
abstractNote = {Here we review the recent development of extreme ultraviolet reflection–absorption (XUV-RA) spectroscopy. This method combines the benefits of X-ray absorption spectroscopy, such as element, oxidation, and spin state specificity, with surface sensitivity and ultrafast time resolution, having a probe depth of only a few nm and an instrument response less than 100 fs. Using this technique we investigated the ultrafast electron dynamics at a hematite (α-Fe2O3) surface. Surface electron trapping and small polaron formation both occur in 660 fs following photoexcitation. These kinetics are independent of surface morphology indicating that electron trapping is not mediated by defects. Instead, small polaron formation is proposed as the likely driving force for surface electron trapping. We also show that in Fe2O3, Co3O4, and NiO, band gap excitation promotes electron transfer from O 2p valence band states to metal 3d conduction band states. In addition to detecting the photoexcited electron at the metal M2,3-edge, the valence band hole is directly observed as transient signal at the O L1-edge. The size of the resulting charge transfer exciton is on the order of a single metal–oxygen bond length. Spectral shifts at the O L1-edge correlate with metal–oxygen bond covalency, confirming the relationship between valence band hybridization and the overpotential for water oxidation. Furthermore, these examples demonstrate the unique ability to measure ultrafast electron dynamics with element and chemical state resolution using XUV-RA spectroscopy. Accordingly, this method is poised to play an important role to reveal chemical details of previously unseen surface electron dynamics.},
doi = {10.1039/c8cc01745j},
journal = {ChemComm},
number = 34,
volume = 54,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Apr 06 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Fri Apr 06 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

Journal Article:
Free Publicly Available Full Text
Publisher's Version of Record

Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 21 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

Save / Share:

Works referenced in this record:

Benchmarking Hydrogen Evolving Reaction and Oxygen Evolving Reaction Electrocatalysts for Solar Water Splitting Devices
journal, March 2015

  • McCrory, Charles C. L.; Jung, Suho; Ferrer, Ivonne M.
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 137, Issue 13
  • DOI: 10.1021/ja510442p

The soft x-ray free-electron laser FLASH at DESY: beamlines, diagnostics and end-stations
journal, February 2009


Direct Observation of Surface Chemistry Using Ultrafast Soft-X-Ray Pulses
journal, June 2001


Descriptors of Oxygen-Evolution Activity for Oxides: A Statistical Evaluation
journal, December 2015

  • Hong, Wesley T.; Welsch, Roy E.; Shao-Horn, Yang
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 120, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b10071

Ultrafast X-ray Pulses from Laser-Produced Plasmas
journal, February 1991


Probing ultrafast changes of spin and charge density profiles with resonant XUV magnetic reflectivity at the free-electron laser FERMI
journal, September 2017

  • Gutt, C.; Sant, T.; Ksenzov, D.
  • Structural Dynamics, Vol. 4, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.4990650

Hematite heterostructures for photoelectrochemical water splitting: rational materials design and charge carrier dynamics
journal, January 2016

  • Shen, Shaohua; Lindley, Sarah A.; Chen, Xiangyan
  • Energy & Environmental Science, Vol. 9, Issue 9
  • DOI: 10.1039/C6EE01845A

Comparative time-resolved photoemission from the Cu(100) and Cu(111) surfaces
journal, December 2016


The separation of vibrational coherence from ground- and excited-electronic states in P3HT film
journal, June 2015

  • Song, Yin; Hellmann, Christoph; Stingelin, Natalie
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 142, Issue 21
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.4916325

Attosecond science
journal, June 2007

  • Corkum, P. B.; Krausz, Ferenc
  • Nature Physics, Vol. 3, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1038/nphys620

Exciton-exciton annihilation in MoSe 2 monolayers
journal, March 2014


Spin-orbit coupling in free-radical reactions: on the way to heavy elements
journal, January 1993

  • Khudyakov, Igor V.; Serebrennikov, Yuri A.; Turro, Nicholas J.
  • Chemical Reviews, Vol. 93, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1021/cr00017a023

Energy Conversion in Natural and Artificial Photosynthesis
journal, May 2010


Visible light driven photocatalysis mediated via ligand-to-metal charge transfer (LMCT): an alternative approach to solar activation of titania
journal, January 2014

  • Zhang, Guan; Kim, Gonu; Choi, Wonyong
  • Energy & Environmental Science, Vol. 7, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1039/c3ee43147a

Water Oxidation at Hematite Photoelectrodes: The Role of Surface States
journal, February 2012

  • Klahr, Benjamin; Gimenez, Sixto; Fabregat-Santiago, Francisco
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 134, Issue 9
  • DOI: 10.1021/ja210755h

X-Ray Absorption Spectra of Water from First Principles Calculations
journal, May 2006


SwissFEL: The Swiss X-ray Free Electron Laser
journal, July 2017

  • Milne, Christopher; Schietinger, Thomas; Aiba, Masamitsu
  • Applied Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.3390/app7070720

Influence of surface structural disorder on linewidths in angle-resolved photoemission spectra
journal, August 1997


Observation of Rapid Exciton–Exciton Annihilation in Monolayer Molybdenum Disulfide
journal, September 2014

  • Sun, Dezheng; Rao, Yi; Reider, Georg A.
  • Nano Letters, Vol. 14, Issue 10
  • DOI: 10.1021/nl5021975

Femtosecond M 2,3 -Edge Spectroscopy of Transition-Metal Oxides: Photoinduced Oxidation State Change in α-Fe 2 O 3
journal, October 2013

  • Vura-Weis, Josh; Jiang, Chang-Ming; Liu, Chong
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 4, Issue 21
  • DOI: 10.1021/jz401997d

Ultra-fast and ultra-intense x-ray sciences: first results from the Linac Coherent Light Source free-electron laser
journal, August 2013

  • Bostedt, C.; Bozek, J. D.; Bucksbaum, P. H.
  • Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Vol. 46, Issue 16
  • DOI: 10.1088/0953-4075/46/16/164003

Time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy for the study of molecular systems relevant for artificial photosynthesis
journal, December 2015


Non-thermal melting in semiconductors measured at femtosecond resolution
journal, March 2001

  • Rousse, A.; Rischel, C.; Fourmaux, S.
  • Nature, Vol. 410, Issue 6824
  • DOI: 10.1038/35065045

Electronic and nuclear contributions to time-resolved optical and X-ray absorption spectra of hematite and insights into photoelectrochemical performance
journal, January 2016

  • Hayes, Dugan; Hadt, Ryan G.; Emery, Jonathan D.
  • Energy & Environmental Science, Vol. 9, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.1039/C6EE02266A

Ultrafast Electron Dynamics in Solar Energy Conversion
journal, May 2017


Ultrafast Plasmon-Enhanced Hot Electron Generation at Ag Nanocluster/Graphite Heterojunctions
journal, April 2017

  • Tan, Shijing; Liu, Liming; Dai, Yanan
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 139, Issue 17
  • DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b01079

Time-resolved two photon photoemission electron microscopy
journal, March 2002


Ultrafast Studies of Photoexcited Electron Dynamics in γ- and α-Fe 2 O 3 Semiconductor Nanoparticles
journal, January 1998

  • Cherepy, Nerine J.; Liston, Dorion B.; Lovejoy, Jennifer A.
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol. 102, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1021/jp973149e

High-Resolution X-ray Emission and X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy
journal, June 2001


Detecting the oxyl radical of photocatalytic water oxidation at an n-SrTiO3/aqueous interface through its subsurface vibration
journal, April 2016

  • Herlihy, David M.; Waegele, Matthias M.; Chen, Xihan
  • Nature Chemistry, Vol. 8, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1038/nchem.2497

Phase Transformation and Lithiation Effect on Electronic Structure of Li x FePO 4 : An In-Depth Study by Soft X-ray and Simulations
journal, August 2012

  • Liu, Xiaosong; Liu, Jun; Qiao, Ruimin
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 134, Issue 33
  • DOI: 10.1021/ja303225e

Direct and simultaneous observation of ultrafast electron and hole dynamics in germanium
journal, June 2017

  • Zürch, Michael; Chang, Hung-Tzu; Borja, Lauren J.
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 8, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15734

Surface Segregation and Backscattering in Doped Silicon Nanowires
journal, April 2006


Electron Dynamics at the ZnO (101̅0) Surface
journal, July 2008

  • Tisdale, William A.; Muntwiler, Matthias; Norris, David J.
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 112, Issue 37
  • DOI: 10.1021/jp802455p

Solar Fuels via Artificial Photosynthesis
journal, December 2009

  • Gust, Devens; Moore, Thomas A.; Moore, Ana L.
  • Accounts of Chemical Research, Vol. 42, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.1021/ar900209b

Separability between valence and conduction bands in transition metal clusters: Valence and Conduction Bands in TM Clusters
journal, January 2004

  • Aprà, Edoardo; Carter, Emily A.; Fortunelli, Alessandro
  • International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, Vol. 100, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1002/qua.20192

The generation, characterization and applications of broadband isolated attosecond pulses
journal, February 2014


Ultrafast Electron Transfer at the Molecule-Semiconductor Nanoparticle Interface
journal, May 2005


Carrier dynamics in α‐Fe2O3 (0001) thin films and single crystals probed by femtosecond transient absorption and reflectivity
journal, March 2006

  • Joly, Alan G.; Williams, Joshua R.; Chambers, Scott A.
  • Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 99, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.2177426

Surface Segregation Entropy of Protons and Oxygen Vacancies in BaZrO 3
journal, February 2016


Auger Recombination in Chemical Vapor Deposition-Grown Monolayer WS 2
journal, November 2016

  • Cunningham, Paul D.; McCreary, Kathleen M.; Jonker, Berend T.
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 7, Issue 24
  • DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b02413

Effect of the surface roughness on the spectral distribution of photoemission current at the silver/solution contact
journal, May 1995

  • Kostecki, R.; Augustynski, J.
  • Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 77, Issue 9
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.359438

Dynamics of photogenerated holes in nanocrystalline α-Fe 2 O 3 electrodes for water oxidation probed by transient absorption spectroscopy
journal, January 2011

  • Pendlebury, Stephanie R.; Barroso, Monica; Cowan, Alexander J.
  • Chem. Commun., Vol. 47, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1039/C0CC03627G

Prolonged Hot Electron Dynamics in Plasmonic-Metal/Semiconductor Heterostructures with Implications for Solar Photocatalysis
journal, June 2014

  • DuChene, Joseph S.; Sweeny, Brendan C.; Johnston-Peck, Aaron C.
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 53, Issue 30
  • DOI: 10.1002/anie.201404259

Ultrafast x-ray pulse generation by focusing femtosecond infrared laser pulses onto aqueous solutions of alkali metal chloride
journal, May 2002

  • Hatanaka, Koji; Miura, Toshifumi; Fukumura, Hiroshi
  • Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 80, Issue 21
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.1482135

Ultrafast Charge Carrier Recombination and Trapping in Hematite Photoanodes under Applied Bias
journal, July 2014

  • Pendlebury, Stephanie R.; Wang, Xiuli; Le Formal, Florian
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 136, Issue 28
  • DOI: 10.1021/ja504473e

The CTM4XAS program for EELS and XAS spectral shape analysis of transition metal L edges
journal, October 2010


Passivating surface states on water splitting hematite photoanodes with alumina overlayers
journal, January 2011

  • Le Formal, Florian; Tétreault, Nicolas; Cornuz, Maurin
  • Chemical Science, Vol. 2, Issue 4, p. 737-743
  • DOI: 10.1039/C0SC00578A

Femtosecond x-ray spectroscopy of an electrocyclic ring-opening reaction
journal, April 2017

  • Attar, Andrew R.; Bhattacherjee, Aditi; Pemmaraju, C. D.
  • Science, Vol. 356, Issue 6333
  • DOI: 10.1126/science.aaj2198

Femtosecond Electron-Transfer Dynamics at a Sensitizing Dye−Semiconductor (TiO 2 ) Interface
journal, January 1996

  • Rehm, Julie M.; McLendon, George L.; Nagasawa, Yutaka
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, Vol. 100, Issue 23
  • DOI: 10.1021/jp960155m

Two types of luminescence blinking revealed by spectroelectrochemistry of single quantum dots
journal, November 2011

  • Galland, Christophe; Ghosh, Yagnaseni; Steinbrück, Andrea
  • Nature, Vol. 479, Issue 7372
  • DOI: 10.1038/nature10569

Observation of a Train of Attosecond Pulses from High Harmonic Generation
journal, June 2001


Characterization of Photo-Induced Charge Transfer and Hot Carrier Relaxation Pathways in Spinel Cobalt Oxide (Co 3 O 4 )
journal, September 2014

  • Jiang, Chang-Ming; Baker, L. Robert; Lucas, J. Matthew
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 118, Issue 39
  • DOI: 10.1021/jp5071133

Enhancing the carrier thermalization time in organometallic perovskites by halide mixing
journal, January 2016

  • Madjet, Mohamed El-Amine; Akimov, Alexey V.; El-Mellouhi, Fadwa
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol. 18, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1039/C5CP06603D

Heterogeneous photocatalysis
journal, January 1993

  • Fox, Marye Anne.; Dulay, Maria T.
  • Chemical Reviews, Vol. 93, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1021/cr00017a016

Ultrafast Studies of Electron Dynamics in Semiconductor and Metal Colloidal Nanoparticles:  Effects of Size and Surface
journal, October 1997

  • Zhang, Jin Z.
  • Accounts of Chemical Research, Vol. 30, Issue 10
  • DOI: 10.1021/ar960178j

High-order laser harmonics and synchrotron study of transition metals M 2 , 3 edges
journal, March 2006


Transition metal complexes as electrocatalysts—Development and applications in electro-oxidation reactions
journal, September 2007


Dynamics of photogenerated holes in surface modified  -Fe2O3 photoanodes for solar water splitting
journal, July 2012

  • Barroso, M.; Mesa, C. A.; Pendlebury, S. R.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 109, Issue 39
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1118326109

Visualizing Interfacial Charge Transfer in Ru-Dye-Sensitized TiO 2 Nanoparticles Using X-ray Transient Absorption Spectroscopy
journal, February 2011

  • Zhang, Xiaoyi; Smolentsev, Grigory; Guo, Jianchang
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 2, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1021/jz200122r

Impact of surface chemistry
journal, September 2010

  • Somorjai, G. A.; Li, Y.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 108, Issue 3, p. 917-924
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1006669107

Electron trapping and impurity segregation without defects: Ab initio study of perfectly rebonded grain boundaries
journal, February 1994


Coherent ultrafast charge transfer in an organic photovoltaic blend
journal, May 2014


DNA Excited-State Dynamics: From Single Bases to the Double Helix
journal, May 2009


Mapping vibrational surface and bulk modes in a single nanocube
journal, March 2017

  • Lagos, Maureen J.; Trügler, Andreas; Hohenester, Ulrich
  • Nature, Vol. 543, Issue 7646
  • DOI: 10.1038/nature21699

Influence of iron doping on tetravalent nickel content in catalytic oxygen evolving films
journal, January 2017

  • Li, Nancy; Bediako, D. Kwabena; Hadt, Ryan G.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 114, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1620787114

Measuring the Surface Photovoltage of a Schottky Barrier under Intense Light Conditions: Zn/p-Si(100) by Laser Time-Resolved Extreme Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy
journal, September 2017

  • Marsh, Brett M.; Vaida, Mihai E.; Cushing, Scott K.
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 121, Issue 40
  • DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b06406

Attosecond band-gap dynamics in silicon
journal, December 2014


Surface electron dynamics in hematite (α-Fe 2 O 3 ): correlation between ultrafast surface electron trapping and small polaron formation
journal, January 2017

  • Husek, Jakub; Cirri, Anthony; Biswas, Somnath
  • Chemical Science, Vol. 8, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.1039/C7SC02826A

Unravelling Small-Polaron Transport in Metal Oxide Photoelectrodes
journal, January 2016

  • Rettie, Alexander J. E.; Chemelewski, William D.; Emin, David
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 7, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02143

From two-dimensional electron gas to localized charge: Dynamics of polaron formation in organic semiconductors
journal, January 2015


Light and oxygen induced degradation limits the operational stability of methylammonium lead triiodide perovskite solar cells
journal, January 2016

  • Bryant, Daniel; Aristidou, Nicholas; Pont, Sebastian
  • Energy & Environmental Science, Vol. 9, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1039/C6EE00409A

Nanostructured Cobalt Oxide Clusters in Mesoporous Silica as Efficient Oxygen-Evolving Catalysts
journal, February 2009

  • Jiao, Feng; Frei, Heinz
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 48, Issue 10
  • DOI: 10.1002/anie.200805534

Diffusion of Nonequilibrium Quasi-Particles in a Cuprate Superconductor
journal, May 2003


X-ray Transient Absorption and Picosecond IR Spectroscopy of Fulvalene(tetracarbonyl)diruthenium on Photoexcitation
journal, June 2012

  • Harpham, Michael R.; Nguyen, Son C.; Hou, Zongrui
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 51, Issue 31
  • DOI: 10.1002/anie.201202952

Electrical Properties of NiO
journal, March 1954


Estimating Hybridization of Transition Metal and Oxygen States in Perovskites from O K -edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy
journal, January 2014

  • Suntivich, Jin; Hong, Wesley T.; Lee, Yueh-Lin
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 118, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1021/jp410644j

Carrier-Specific Femtosecond XUV Transient Absorption of PbI 2 Reveals Ultrafast Nonradiative Recombination
journal, December 2017

  • Lin, Ming-Fu; Verkamp, Max A.; Leveillee, Joshua
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 121, Issue 50
  • DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b11147

Picosecond X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of a Photoinduced Iron(II) Spin Crossover Reaction in Solution
journal, January 2006

  • Khalil, Munira; Marcus, Matthew A.; Smeigh, Amanda L.
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol. 110, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1021/jp055002q

Determination of the Light-Induced Degradation Rate of the Solar Cell Sensitizer N719 on TiO 2 Nanocrystalline Particles
journal, December 2005

  • Nour-Mohhamadi, Farahnaz; Nguyen, Sau Doan; Boschloo, Gerrit
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol. 109, Issue 47
  • DOI: 10.1021/jp052792v

Electrical Properties of α - Fe 2 O 3
journal, March 1954


Limiting Perovskite Solar Cell Performance by Heterogeneous Carrier Extraction
journal, October 2016


High Photoluminescence Quantum Yield in Band Gap Tunable Bromide Containing Mixed Halide Perovskites
journal, December 2015


Highly Localized Charge Transfer Excitons in Metal Oxide Semiconductors
journal, January 2018


Coherent Atomic Motions in a Nanostructure Studied by Femtosecond X-ray Diffraction
journal, December 2004


Ultrafast Elemental and Oxidation-State Mapping of Hematite by 4D Electron Microscopy
journal, March 2017

  • Su, Zixue; Baskin, J. Spencer; Zhou, Wuzong
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 139, Issue 13
  • DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b00906

Testing variations of the GW approximation on strongly correlated transition metal oxides: hematite (α-Fe2O3) as a benchmark
journal, January 2011

  • Liao, Peilin; Carter, Emily A.
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol. 13, Issue 33
  • DOI: 10.1039/c1cp20829b

Efficient hot-electron transfer by a plasmon-induced interfacial charge-transfer transition
journal, August 2015


Exciton–exciton annihilation and relaxation pathways in semiconducting carbon nanotubes
journal, January 2016

  • Chmeliov, Jevgenij; Narkeliunas, Jonas; Graham, Matt W.
  • Nanoscale, Vol. 8, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1039/C5NR06853C

Femtosecond X-ray measurement of coherent lattice vibrations near the Lindemann stability limit
journal, March 2003

  • Sokolowski-Tinten, Klaus; Blome, Christian; Blums, Juris
  • Nature, Vol. 422, Issue 6929
  • DOI: 10.1038/nature01490

Charge carrier trapping, recombination and transfer in hematite (α-Fe2O3) water splitting photoanodes
journal, January 2013

  • Barroso, Monica; Pendlebury, Stephanie R.; Cowan, Alexander J.
  • Chemical Science, Vol. 4, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1039/c3sc50496d

Coherence in Energy Transfer and Photosynthesis
journal, April 2015


Ultrafast Intersystem Crossing in Acetylacetone via Femtosecond X-ray Transient Absorption at the Carbon K-Edge
journal, November 2017

  • Bhattacherjee, Aditi; Pemmaraju, Chaitanya Das; Schnorr, Kirsten
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 139, Issue 46
  • DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b07532

Excitation-wavelength-dependent small polaron trapping of photoexcited carriers in α-Fe2O3
journal, July 2017

  • Carneiro, Lucas M.; Cushing, Scott K.; Liu, Chong
  • Nature Materials, Vol. 16, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1038/nmat4936

Interfacial Charge Transfer Circumventing Momentum Mismatch at Two-Dimensional van der Waals Heterojunctions
journal, May 2017


Hydrogen Production by Molecular Photocatalysis
journal, October 2007

  • Esswein, Arthur J.; Nocera, Daniel G.
  • Chemical Reviews, Vol. 107, Issue 10
  • DOI: 10.1021/cr050193e

Ultrafast dynamics in solids probed by femtosecond time-resolved broadband electronic sum frequency generation
journal, November 2016

  • Foglia, Laura; Wolf, Martin; Stähler, Julia
  • Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 109, Issue 20
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.4967838

Oxygen 1 s x-ray-absorption edges of transition-metal oxides
journal, September 1989


Direct Measurement of Off-State Trapping Rate Fluctuations in Single Quantum Dot Fluorescence
journal, August 2011

  • Cordones, Amy A.; Bixby, Teresa J.; Leone, Stephen R.
  • Nano Letters, Vol. 11, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1021/nl2017674

Probing electronic binding potentials with attosecond photoelectron wavepackets
journal, October 2017

  • Kiesewetter, D.; Jones, R. R.; Camper, A.
  • Nature Physics, Vol. 14, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/nphys4279

Surface electronic states in three-dimensional SnO2 nanostructures
journal, July 2005


Femtosecond transient reflectivity measurements as a probe for process-induced defects in silicon
journal, December 1990


Ultrafast Structural Rearrangements in the MLCT Excited State for Copper(I) bis- Phenanthrolines in Solution
journal, February 2007

  • Shaw, George B.; Grant, Christian D.; Shirota, Hideaki
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 129, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1021/ja067271f

Electronic and Molecular Structure of Photoexcited [Ru II (bpy) 3 ] 2+ Probed by Picosecond X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy
journal, April 2006

  • Gawelda, Wojciech; Johnson, Melanie; de Groot, Frank M. F.
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 128, Issue 15
  • DOI: 10.1021/ja054932k

Photoinduced Structural Dynamics of Molecular Systems Mapped by Time-Resolved X-ray Methods
journal, May 2017


Quantitative electron spectroscopy of surfaces: A standard data base for electron inelastic mean free paths in solids
journal, February 1979


Universal energy-level alignment of molecules on metal oxides
journal, November 2011

  • Greiner, Mark T.; Helander, Michael G.; Tang, Wing-Man
  • Nature Materials, Vol. 11, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/nmat3159

Hole localization in Fe 2 O 3 from density functional theory and wave-function-based methods
journal, August 2017


Surface phonons; past, present and future
journal, January 1990


Photocatalysis on TiO2 Surfaces: Principles, Mechanisms, and Selected Results
journal, May 1995

  • Linsebigler, Amy L.; Lu, Guangquan.; Yates, John T.
  • Chemical Reviews, Vol. 95, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1021/cr00035a013

Solar Water Splitting: Progress Using Hematite (α-Fe2O3) Photoelectrodes
journal, March 2011

  • Sivula, Kevin; Le Formal, Florian; Grätzel, Michael
  • ChemSusChem, Vol. 4, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201000416

X-Ray Interactions: Photoabsorption, Scattering, Transmission, and Reflection at E = 50-30,000 eV, Z = 1-92
journal, July 1993

  • Henke, B. L.; Gullikson, E. M.; Davis, J. C.
  • Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables, Vol. 54, Issue 2, p. 181-342
  • DOI: 10.1006/adnd.1993.1013

Transient optical diffraction of GaN/aqueous interfaces: Interfacial carrier mobility dependence on surface reactivity
journal, April 2016


Molecular Fluorescence
book, April 2012


Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in Hematite Films: The Role of Photoexcited Electrons in the Transient Optical Response
journal, October 2014

  • Sorenson, Shayne; Driscoll, Eric; Haghighat, Shima
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 118, Issue 41
  • DOI: 10.1021/jp508273f

Achieving Surface Sensitivity in Ultrafast XUV Spectroscopy: M 2,3 -Edge Reflection–Absorption of Transition Metal Oxides
journal, July 2017

  • Cirri, Anthony; Husek, Jakub; Biswas, Somnath
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 121, Issue 29
  • DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b05127

Femtosecond Dynamics of Electron Localization at Interfaces
journal, January 1998


Femtosecond Studies of Electron Dynamics at Interfaces
journal, February 2000

  • Ge, Nien-Hui; Wong, Chung M.; Harris, Charles B.
  • Accounts of Chemical Research, Vol. 33, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1021/ar980138a

Rate Law Analysis of Water Oxidation on a Hematite Surface
journal, May 2015

  • Le Formal, Florian; Pastor, Ernest; Tilley, S. David
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 137, Issue 20
  • DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b02576

Plasmonic hot carrier dynamics in solid-state and chemical systems for energy conversion
journal, January 2016

  • Narang, Prineha; Sundararaman, Ravishankar; Atwater, Harry A.
  • Nanophotonics, Vol. 5, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2016-0007

Molecular photovoltaics
journal, April 1998


Oxygen vacancies: The origin of n -type conductivity in ZnO
journal, June 2016


Bulk heterojunction solar cells with internal quantum efficiency approaching 100%
journal, April 2009

  • Park, Sung Heum; Roy, Anshuman; Beaupré, Serge
  • Nature Photonics, Vol. 3, Issue 5, p. 297-302
  • DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.69

Determination of Molecular Surface Structure, Composition, and Dynamics under Reaction Conditions at High Pressures and at the Solid-Liquid Interface
journal, May 2011

  • Somorjai, Gabor A.; Beaumont, Simon K.; Alayoglu, Selim
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 50, Issue 43
  • DOI: 10.1002/anie.201008214

Determination of spin injection and transport in a ferromagnet/organic semiconductor heterojunction by two-photon photoemission
journal, November 2008

  • Cinchetti, Mirko; Heimer, Kathrin; Wüstenberg, Jan-Peter
  • Nature Materials, Vol. 8, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1038/nmat2334

Ultrafast X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy
journal, April 2004

  • Bressler, Christian; Chergui, Majed
  • Chemical Reviews, Vol. 104, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1021/cr0206667

Molecular Photovoltaics
journal, May 2000

  • Hagfeldt, Anders; Grätzel, Michael
  • Accounts of Chemical Research, Vol. 33, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1021/ar980112j

53-attosecond X-ray pulses reach the carbon K-edge
journal, August 2017


Hot-electron-driven charge transfer processes on O 2 / Pt ( 111 ) surface probed by ultrafast extreme-ultraviolet pulses
journal, December 2002


Probing the Impact of Solvation on Photoexcited Spin Crossover Complexes with High-Precision X-ray Transient Absorption Spectroscopy
journal, November 2017

  • Liu, Cunming; Zhang, Jianxin; Lawson Daku, Latévi M.
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 139, Issue 48
  • DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b09297

Subpicosecond Interfacial Charge Separation in Dye-Sensitized Nanocrystalline Titanium Dioxide Films
journal, January 1996

  • Tachibana, Yasuhiro; Moser, Jacques E.; Grätzel, Michael
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, Vol. 100, Issue 51
  • DOI: 10.1021/jp962227f

Formation of Two-Dimensional Polarons that are Absent in Three-Dimensional Crystals
journal, June 2007


Thermodynamic efficiency limit of excitonic solar cells
journal, May 2011

  • Giebink, Noel C.; Wiederrecht, Gary P.; Wasielewski, Michael R.
  • Physical Review B, Vol. 83, Issue 19
  • DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.195326

Mimicking Photosynthetic Solar Energy Transduction
journal, January 2001

  • Gust, Devens; Moore, Thomas A.; Moore, Ana L.
  • Accounts of Chemical Research, Vol. 34, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1021/ar9801301

Charge Carrier Dynamics of Photoexcited Co 3 O 4 in Methanol: Extending High Harmonic Transient Absorption Spectroscopy to Liquid Environments
journal, September 2014

  • Baker, L. Robert; Jiang, Chang-Ming; Kelly, Stephen T.
  • Nano Letters, Vol. 14, Issue 10
  • DOI: 10.1021/nl502817a

Limiting Perovskite Solar Cell Performance by Heterogeneous Carrier Extraction
journal, October 2016

  • Tian, Wenming; Cui, Rongrong; Leng, Jing
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 55, Issue 42
  • DOI: 10.1002/anie.201606574

Achieving Surface Sensitivity in Ultrafast XUV Spectroscopy: M2,3-edge Reflection-Absorption of Transition Metal Oxides
conference, January 2017

  • Baker, L. Robert; Cirri, Anthony; Husek, Jakub
  • Laser Science, Frontiers in Optics 2017
  • DOI: 10.1364/ls.2017.ltu5f.4

Coherent ultrafast charge transfer in an organic photovoltaic blend
conference, January 2014

  • De Sio, Antonietta; Falke, Sarah M.; Rozzi, Carlo A.
  • 19th International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena
  • DOI: 10.1364/up.2014.10.thu.e.3

Ultrafast charge carrier recombination and trapping in hematite photoanodes under applied bias
text, January 2014

  • Pendlebury, Stephanie R.; Wang, Xiuli; Le Formal, Florian
  • American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • DOI: 10.5167/uzh-110917

Rate law analysis of water oxidation on a hematite surface
text, January 2015

  • Le Formal, Florian; Pastor, Ernest; Tilley, S. David
  • American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • DOI: 10.5167/uzh-110920

Prolonged Hot Electron Dynamics in Plasmonic-Metal/Semiconductor Heterostructures with Implications for Solar Photocatalysis
journal, June 2014

  • DuChene, Joseph S.; Sweeny, Brendan C.; Johnston-Peck, Aaron C.
  • Angewandte Chemie, Vol. 126, Issue 30
  • DOI: 10.1002/ange.201404259

Nanostructured Cobalt Oxide Clusters in Mesoporous Silica as Efficient Oxygen-Evolving Catalysts
journal, February 2009


Hydrogen Production by Molecular Photocatalysis
journal, December 2007


Heterogeneous Photocatalysis
journal, May 2021


X-ray Transient Absorption and Picosecond IR Spectroscopy of Fulvalene(tetracarbonyl)diruthenium on Photoexcitation
journal, June 2012

  • Harpham, Michael R.; Nguyen, Son C.; Hou, Zongrui
  • Angewandte Chemie, Vol. 124, Issue 31
  • DOI: 10.1002/ange.201202952

Diffusion of Nonequilibrium Quasiparticles in a Cuprate Superconductor
text, January 2003


Works referencing / citing this record:

Controlling polaron formation at hematite surfaces by molecular functionalization probed by XUV reflection-absorption spectroscopy
journal, September 2019

  • Biswas, Somnath; Wallentine, Spencer; Bandaranayake, Savini
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 151, Issue 10
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.5115163

Transient absorption spectroscopy using high harmonic generation: a review of ultrafast X-ray dynamics in molecules and solids
journal, April 2019

  • Geneaux, Romain; Marroux, Hugo J. B.; Guggenmos, Alexander
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 377, Issue 2145
  • DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2017.0463

Ultrafast Dynamics of Charge Transfer and Photochemical Reactions in Solar Energy Conversion
journal, October 2018