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Paul Scherrer Institut PSI Steven L Johnson: Publications

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List of publications in reverse chronological order:

  1. S. L. Johnson and C. J. Milne

    Ultrafast X-ray Science: Structural Transients in Solution

    Tr. Anal. Chem., 2010 (accepted).

  2. S. L. Johnson, P. Beaud, E. Vorobeva, C. J. Milne, É. D. Murray, S. Fahy and G. Ingold

    Non-equilibrium phonon dynamics studied by grazing-incidence femtosecond X-ray crystallography

    Act. Cryst. A 66, March 2010, Part 2, pp. 157-167 (doi, pdf)

  3. S. L. Johnson, P. Beaud, E. Vorobeva, C. J. Milne, É. D. Murray, S. Fahy and G. Ingold.

    Johnson et al. Reply:

    Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 13 January 2010, 029602 (doi, pdf).

  4. S. L. Johnson, E. Vorobeva, P. Beaud, C. J. Milne and G. Ingold.

    Full reconstruction of a crystal unit cell during coherent femtosecond motion

    Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 10 November 2009, 205501 (doi, pdf, publisher site).

  5. Chris J. Milne, Van-Thai Pham, Wojciech Gawelda, Renske M. van der Veen, Amal El Nahhas, Steven L. Johnson, Paul Beaud, Gerhard Ingold, Frederico Lima, Dimali A. Vithanage, Maurizio Benfatto, Daniel Grolimund, Camelia Borca, Maik Kaiser, Andreas Hauser, Rafael Abela, Christian Bressler and Majed Chergui.

    Time-resolved x-ray absorption spectroscopy: Watching atoms dance

    J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 190 (2009), 012052 (doi).

  6. P. Beaud, S. L. Johnson, E. Vorobeva, U. Staub, R. A. De Souza, C. J. Milne, Q. X. Jia and G. Ingold.

    Ultrafast structural phase transition driven by photoinduced melting of charge and orbital order

    Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 9 October 2009, 155702 (doi, pdf).

  7. E. Vorobeva, S. L. Johnson, P. Beaud, C. J. Milne, M. Benfatto and G. Ingold.

    Local structural changes in excited Ti3+:Al2O3 studied by time-resolved XANES

    Phys. Rev. B 80, 6 October 2009, 134301 (doi, pdf).

  8. P. Beaud, S.L. Johnson, C. J. Milne, F. Krasniqi, E. Vorobeva and G. Ingold.

    Atomic motion in laser excited bismuth studied with femtosecond x-ray diffraction

    in Ultrafast Phenomena XVI, P. Corkum, S. De Silvestri, K.A. Nelson, E. Riedle, R.W. Schoenlein (Eds.), Springer Series in Chemical Physics 92, 104 - 106 (2009).

  9. C. Milne, V.-T. Pham, W. Gawelda, A. El Nahhas, R.M. van der Veen, S.L. Johnson, P. Beaud, G. Ingold., C. Borca, D. Grolimund, R. Abela, M. Chergui and C. Bressler

    Femtosecond x-ray absorption spectroscopy of a photoinduced spin-crossover process

    in Ultrafast Phenomena XVI, P. Corkum, et al. (Eds.), Springer Series in Chemical Physics 92, 122 - 124 (2009).

  10. F. Krasniqi, S.L. Johnson, P. Beaud, M. Kaiser, D. Grolimund, G. Ingold

    Influence of laser heating time on strain wave dynamics in InSb

    in Ultrafast Phenomena XVI, P. Corkum, et al. (Eds.), Springer Series in Chemical Physics 92, 238 - 240 (2009).

  11. S. L. Johnson, P. Beaud, E. Vorobeva, C. J. Milne, É. D. Murray, S. Fahy and G. Ingold.

    Directly observing squeezed phonon states with femtosecond x-ray diffraction

    Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 27 April 2009, 175503 (doi, pdf).

  12. Ch. Bressler, C. Milne, V.-T. Pham, A. ElNahhas, R. M. van der Veen, W. Gawelda, S. Johnson, P. Beaud, D. Grolimund, M. Kaiser, C. N. Borca, G. Ingold, R. Abela, M. Chergui

    Femtosecond XANES Study of the Light-Induced Spin Crossover Dynamics in an Iron(II) Complex

    Science 323 (5913), 23 January 2009, pp. 489-492 (doi).

  13. F. S. Krasniqi, S. L. Johnson, P. Beaud, M. Kaiser, D. Grolimund and G. Ingold.

    Influence of lattice heating time on femtosecond laser induced strain waves in InSb

    Phys. Rev. B 78, November 2008, 174302 (pdf, doi).

  14. G. Ingold, R. Abela, P. Beaud, S. L. Johnson, U. Staub.

    Towards Pump-Probe Resonant X-Ray Diffraction at Femtosecond Undulator Sources.

    Z. Krist. 223, May 2008, 292-306. (doi)

  15. S. L. Johnson, P. Beaud, C. J. Milne, F. S. Krasniqi, E. S. Zijlstra, M. E. Garcia, M. Kaiser, D. Grolimund, R. Abela and G. Ingold.

    Nanoscale Depth-Resolved Coherent Femtosecond Motion in Laser-Excited Bismuth.

    Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 14 April 2008, 155501. (pdf, doi, publisher site)

  16. C. Quitmannn, J. Raabe, C. Buehler, M. Buess, S. Johnson, F. Nolting, V. Schlott and A. Streun.

    Measuring magnetic excitations in microstructures using X-ray microscopy

    Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 588, 11 April 2008, 494-501. (doi, science direct)

  17. P. Beaud, S. L. Johnson, A. Streun, R. Abela, D. Abramsohn, D. Grolimund, F. Krasniqi, T. Schmidt, V. Schlott and G. Ingold.

    Spatiotemporal Stability of Femtosecond Hard X-ray Undulator Radiation Studied by Control of Coherent Optical Phonons.

    Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 26 October 2007, 174801. (pdf, doi)

  18. G. Ingold, P. Beaud, S. L. Johnson, D. Grolimund, V. Schlott, T. Schmidt, A. Streun.

    FEMTO: A sub-ps Tunable Hard X-ray Undulator Source for Laser/X-ray Pump-Probe Experiments at the SLS.

    Synch. Rad. News 20 (5), September/October 2007, p. 35. (doi)

  19. W. Gawelda, V. T. Pham, A. El Nahhas, M. Kaiser, Y. Zaushitsyn, S. L. Johnson, D. Grolimund, R. Abela, A. Hauser, C. Bressler, and M. Chergui.

    Capturing Transient Electronic and Molecular Structures in Liquids by Picosecond X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy

    in X-ray Absorption Fine Structure--XAFS13, B. Hedman and P. Pianetta eds., February 2007, 31. (pdf, doi)

  20. W. Gawelda, V.-T. Pham, M. Benfatto, Y. Zaushitsyn, M. Kaiser, D. Grolimund, S. L. Johnson, R. Abela, A. Hauser, C. Bressler, and M. Chergui.

    Structural determination of a short-lived excited iron(II) complex by picosecond x-ray absorption spectroscopy.

    Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 2 February 2007, 057401. (pdf, doi)

  21. V.-T. Pham, W. Gawelda, Y. Zaushitsyn, M. Kaiser, D. Grolimund, S. L. Johnson, R. Abela, C. Bressler, and M. Chergui.

    Observation of the solvent shell reorganization around photoexcited atomic solutes by picosecond x-ray absorption spectroscopy.

    J. Am. Chem. Soc., 20 Jan 2007. (doi)

  22. G. I. Meijer, U. Staub, M. Janousch, S. L. Johnson, B. Delley, and T. Neisius.

    Valence states of Cr and the insulator-to-metal transition in Cr-doped SrTiO3.

    Phys Rev. B 72, 4 October 2005, 155102. (pdf, doi)

  23. J. Raabe, C. Quitmann, C. H. Back, F. Nolting, S. Johnson, C. Buehler.

    Quantitative analysis of magnetic excitations in Landau-flux closure structures using synchrotron-radiation microscopy.

    Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 2 June 2005, 217204. (pdf, doi)

  24. W. Gawelda, C. Bressler, M. Saes, M. Kaiser, A. N. Tarnovsky, D. Grolimund, S. L. Johnson, R. Abela, M. Chergui.

    Picosecond Time-Resolved X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Solvated Organometallic Complexes.

    Physica Scripta T115 (2005), 102-106. (PS online)

  25. S. L. Johnson, P. A. Heimann, A. G. MacPhee, A. M. Lindenberg, O. R. Monteiro, R. W. Lee, Z. Chang, R. W. Falcone.

    Bonding in liquid carbon studied by time-resolved x-ray absorption spectroscopy.

    Phys. Rev. Lett., 94, 10 Feb 2005, 057407. (pdf, doi, PNU summary, Article in SpectroscopyNow, ALS News highlight)

  26. W. Gawelda, M. Saes, M. Kaiser, A. Tarnovsky, S. L. Johnson, D. Grolimund, R. Abela, M. Chergui and C. Bressler.

    Structural dynamics and electronic structure changes probed with lasers and X-rays

    , in Femtochemistry and Femtobiology: Ultrafast Events in Molecular Science, M.M. Martin and J.T. Hynes eds., Elsevier 2004, p.353.

  27. M. Saes, F. von Mourik, W. Gawelda, M. Kaiser, M. Chergui, C. Bressler, D. Grolimund, R. Abela, T. E. Glover, P. A. Heimann, R. W. Schoenlein, S. L. Johnson, A. M. Lindenberg, R. W. Falcone.

    A setup for ultrafast time-resolved x-ray absorption spectroscopy.

    Rev. Sci. Instrum. 75(1), 2004, pp. 24-30. (pdf*, doi)

  28. M. Saes, W. Gawelda, M. Kaiser, A. Tarnovsky, C. Bressler, M. Chergui, S. L. Johnson, D. Grolimund and R. Abela.

    Ultrafast Time-Resolved X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Chemical Systems.

    Synch. Rad. News 16 (4), 2003, pp 12-20.

  29. S. L. Johnson, P. A. Heimann, A. M. Lindenberg, H. O. Jeschke, M. E. Garcia, J. J. Rehr, R. W. Lee, Z. Chang, R. W. Falcone.

    Properties of liquid silicon studied by ultrafast time-resolved x-ray absorption spectroscopy.

    Phys. Rev. Lett. 91 (15), 10 Oct 2003, 157403. (pdf, doi)

  30. S.L. Johnson, P.A. Heimann, A.M. Lindenberg, A.G. MacPhee, R.W. Falcone, H.O. Jeschke, M. Garcia, J.J. Rehr, R.W. Lee, Z. Chang.

    Properties of Liquid Silicon and Carbon Studied by Ultrafast Time-Resolved X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy,

    in Ultrafast Phenomena XIII, R.D. Miller, M.M. Murnane, N.F. Scherer, A.M. Weiner, eds., (Springer, Germany, 2003) pp. 39-41.

  31. M. Saes, C. Bressler, P. A. Heimann, R. Abela, D. Grolimund, S. L. Johnson, M. Chergui.

    Observing transient chemical changes by ultrafast x-ray absorption spectroscopy.

    Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, Jan 2003, 047403. (pdf, doi)

  32. S. L. Johnson.

    Ultrafast X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy: Properties of Liquid Silicon and Carbon.

    PhD thesis, UC Berkeley (2002). (pdf)

  33. A. M. Lindenberg, I. Kang, S. L. Johnson, R. W. Falcone, P. A. Heimann, Z. Chang, R. W. Lee, J. S. Wark.

    Coherent control of phonons probed by time-resolved x-ray diffraction.

    Optics Lett. 27 (10), May 2002, 869. (doi, pdf, link to OSA archive)

  34. J. S. Wark, A. M. Allen, P. C. Ansbro, P. H. Bucksbaum, Z. Chang, M. DeCamp, R. W. Falcone, P. A. Heimann, S. L. Johnson, I. Kang, H. C. Kapteyn, J. Larsson, R. W. Lee, A. M. Lindenberg, R. Merlin, T. Missalla, G. Naylor, H. A. Padmore, D. A. Reis, K. Scheidt, A. Sjoegren, P. C. Sondhauss, M. Wulff.

    Femtosecond X-ray diffraction: experiments and limits.

    Proc. SPIE 4143, 2001, 26-37. (doi)

  35. P. A. Heimann, A. M. Lindenberg, I. Kang, S. Johnson, T. Missalla, Z. Chang, R. W. Falcone, R. W. Schoenlein, T. E. Glover, H. A. Padmore.

    Ultrafast X-ray diffraction of laser-irradiated crystals.

    Nucl. Inst. Meth. A 467-468, 21 Jul 2001, 986-989. (doi)

  36. A. M. Lindenberg, I. Kang, S. L. Johnson, T. Missalla, P. A. Heimann, Z. Chang, J. Larsson, P. H. Bucksbaum, H. C. Kapteyn, H. A. Padmore, R.W. Lee, J. S. Wark, R. W. Falcone.

    Time-resolved X-ray diffraction from coherent phonons during a laser-induced phase transition.

    Phys. Rev. Lett. 84 (1), 3 Jan. 2000, 111-4. (pdf, doi, ALS News highlight)

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