Jinghua Guo
Scientist - BL 7.0

JGuo@lbl.gov
7-214M
510-495-2230


Advanced Light Source Division
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
One Cyclotron Road, MS 7R0222
Berkeley, CA 94720-8226

Research Interests

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Soft-x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), soft-x-ray emission spectroscopy (XES), resonant inelastic soft-x-ray scattering (RIXS) in material sciences, chemical physics, and biosciences; Development of soft-x-ray spectroscopy instrumentation for investigating hydrogen bonding and molecular structure in liquids and in-situ monitoring the chemical processes in catalysis and electrochemistry.

Gallery of Results

Why Don't Alcohol and Water Mix Very Well? (.pdf)
Berkeley Lab's Science Beat
ALS Science Highlight

Surface Structure of Nano-Structured Materials (in progress)

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Education

1991 – 1995: PhD in Physics (supervisor: Professor Joseph Nordgren), Department of Physics, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Project: "Resonant soft-x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy applied to high temperature superconductors and carbon systems"

• The first resonant soft-x-ray emission study of high temperature superconductors (1994)

• The first resonant soft-x-ray emission study of C60 fullerene (1995)

• The first using detuning excitation in resonant inelastic soft-x-ray scattering (RIXS) which becomes now a powerful spectroscopic technique (1996)

• The first resonant soft-x-ray emission study of hydrogen bonding in liquid water (2002)

1985 – 1988: MSc. in Physics (supervisor: Huijuan He), Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China.

Project: " Pico-second pulsed YAG lasers pumped tuneable dye lasers"

1981 – 1985: Bachelor, Department of Optical Fine Mechanics and Engineering, Zhejiang University, P. R. China.

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Professional Experience

2001 – present: Staff Scientist at Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley

2000 – 2001: Docent in the Department of Physics, Uppsala University, Sweden

1997 – 2001: NFR Forskarassistent in the Department of Physics, Uppsala University, Sweden

1995 – 1997: Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Physics, Uppsala University, Sweden

1988 – 1990: Research associate in Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China

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Awards and Prizes

1997, Recipient of the Ångströms Premium, Uppsala University, Sweden

1991, Recipient of the second award: 1991, "Development of Pico-Second Pulsed Auto-tunable Dye Lasers", Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China

1990, Recipient of the second award: 1990, "Development of High Power Nd:YAG Slab Lasers", Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China

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Professional Memberships

2002 – present, Member, American Physical Society
1999 – 2001, Member, New York Academy of Sciences
1999 – 2001, Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science
1996 – 2001, Member, Royal Society of Physics, Sweden

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Publications & Presentations

* 90 publications in scientific journals: see publication list
* 7 Invited lectures:

1. “Electronic structure of HTS's and C60 by synchrotron radiation excitation soft x-ray emission spectroscopy studies”, Texas Center for Superconductivity at University of Houston (TCSUH), University of Houston, Houston, USA (July, 1994).

2. “Tunable excited soft-x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy at third generation synchrotron radiation sources”, International Workshop on Resonant X-ray Emission Spectroscopy, Osaka, Japan (July, 2000).

3. “Resonant Soft-x-ray Emission of Molecular Materials”, VUV-XIII Satellite Meeting, "Decay Processes in Core-Excited Species", Villa Mondragone, Monte Porzio Catone, Rome (July 30-Aug 2, 2001).

4. “Resonant Soft-x-ray Emission Spectroscopy of Correlated Systems”, 3rd International Symposium on Electronic and Atomic Structures (ISEAS-3), Taiwan (December 13-14, 2001).

5. “Resonant Inelastic Soft-x-ray Scattering (RIXS) of Nanoscaled Materials”, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong (December 17, 2001).

6. “New Opportunities of Resonant Inelastic Soft-x-ray Scattering in Materials Sciences”, Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Taiwan (July 22, 2002).

7. “SXF, RIXS: the Photon-in and Photon-out Techniques in Chemical Analysis”, Tamkang University, Taiwan (July 24, 2002).

* 9 conference presentations:

1. Oral presentation, "Resonant x-ray Raman scattering spectra of Cu dd excitations in Sr2CuO2Cl2", ALS highlights on Using Meeting, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA (October, 1998).

2. Oral presentation, "Soft-x-ray spectroscopic study of hydrogen bonding and solvent-ligand exchange in Fe3+ water solutions", ALS highlights on Using Meeting, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA (October, 2000).

3. Oral presentation, "Soft X-Ray Spectroscopic Studies of Novel Purpose-Built Nano-Structured Hematite (_-Fe2O3)", 36th ACS Western Regional Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA (October, 2000).

4. Oral presentation, “Electronic structure of Tl-2201 and Ti-2212 studied resonant soft-x-ray emission spectroscopy (RXES)”, APS March Meeting 2002, Indianapolis, March 22-27, 2002.

5. Oral presentation, “Resonant Inelastic Soft-x-ray Scattering (RIXS) in Probe of Electronic Structure of Matter”, APS March Meeting 2002, Indianapolis, March 22-27, 2002.

6. Oral presentation, “Electronic structure of buried semiconductor mono-layer studied Soft-x-ray emission spectroscopy”, APS March Meeting 2002, Indianapolis, March 22-27, 2002.

7. Oral presentation, “Character and Structure of Hydrogen Bonding in Liquid Water”, APS March Meeting 2002, Austin, March 3-7, 2003.

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Selected Publications

"Soft X-ray Emission Studies of Adsorbates", N. Wassdahl, A. Nilsson, H. Tillborg, T. Wiell, L.-C. Duda, J.-H. Guo, N. Mårtensson, J. Nordgren, J. N. Andersen, and R. Nyholm, Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 812-815 (August, 1992).

"Soft X-ray Resonant Inelastic Scattering at the C K Edge of Diamond", Y. Ma, N. Wassdahl, P. Skytt, J.-H. Guo, J. Nordgren, P. D. Johnson, J.-E. Rubensson, T. Böske, W. Eberhardt, and S. D. Kevan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 2598 (1992).


"Core Excitons and Vibronic Coupling in Diamond and Graphite", Y. Ma, P. Skytt, N. Wassdahl, P. Glans, D. C. Mancini, J.-H. Guo, and J. Nordgren, Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 3725 (1993).

"Resonant X-ray Fluorescence from C60", J.-H. Guo, P. Glans, P. Skytt, N. Wassdahl, J . Nordgren, Y. Luo, H. Ågren, Y. Ma, T. Warwick, P. Heimenn, E. Rotenberger, and J. Denlinger, Phys. Rev. B 52, 10681 (1995).

"Resonant X-ray Emission Spectroscopy of Molecular Oxygen", P. Glans, K. Gunnelin, P. Skytt, J.-H. Guo, N. Wassdahl, J. Nordgren, H. Ågren, F. Kh. Gel'mukhanov, and T. Warwick, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 2448 (1996).

"Resonant X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Correlated Systems - a Probe of Charge-Transfer Excitations", S. M. Butorin, D. C. Mancini, J.-H. Guo, N. Wassdahl, J. Nordgren, M. Nakazawa, S. Tanaka, T. Uozumi, A. Kotani, Y. Ma, K. E. Myano, B. A. Karlin, and D. K. Shuh, Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 574-577 (1996).

"Quenching of Symmetry Breaking in Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering by DetunedExcitation", P. Skytt, P. Glans, J.-H. Guo, K. Gunnelin, C. Såthe, J. Nordgren, F. Kh. Gel'mukhanov, A. Cesar, and H. Ågren, Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 5035-5038 (1996).

"X-ray Resonant Raman Spectra of Cu dd Excitations in Sr2CuOCl2", P. Kuiper, J.-H. Guo, C. Såthe, L.-C. Duda, J. Nordgren, J. J. M. Pothuizen, F. M. F. de Groot, and G. A. Sawatzky, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 5204 (June, 1998).

"X-ray Emission Spectroscopy of Hydrogen Bonding and Electronic Structure of Liquid Water", J.-H. Guo, Y. Luo, A. Augustsson, J.-E. Rubensson, C. Såthe, H. Ågren, H. Siegbahn, and J. Nordgren, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 137402 (9 September, 2002).

“Molecular structure of alcohol-water mixtures”, J.-H. Guo, Y. Luo, A. Augustsson, S. Kashtanov, J.-E. Rubensson, D. Shuh, H. Ågren, and J. Nordgren, Phys. Rev. Lett. (in press, 2003).