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Jinghua Guo
Staff Scientist - BL 7.0
JGuo@lbl.gov
6-2246
510-495-2230 tel
510-495-2067 fax

Advanced Light Source Division
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
One Cyclotron Road, MS 6R2100
Berkeley, CA 94720-8226
 

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Selected Publications
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Research Interests

   
Soft-x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), soft-x-ray emission spectroscopy (XES), resonant inelastic soft-x-ray scattering (RIXS), in-situ photon-in and photon-out soft-x-ray spectroscopy 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.
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Gallery of Results

   

UNTANGLING THE ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF BNCO/CCO SUPERLATTICES (.pdf poster)

BEYOND THE LONE-PAIR MODEL FOR STRUCTURALLY DISTORTED METAL OXIDES (.pdf poster)

In-Situ Photon-in/Photon-out Soft-X-Ray Spectroscopy in Interface and Nanoscience (.pdf poster)

X-Ray Raman Scattering Establishes HTSC Energy Scales
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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ALS RIXS Workshops

   
* RIXS Workshop 2004
"Photon-in and Photon-out X-ray Spectroscopy in Material Sciences,
Environmental Energy and Chemical Analysis"
Organizers: Jonathan Denlinger and Jinghua Guo

* RIXS Workshop 2005
"Soft-x-ray photon-in and photon-out spectroscopy: New Frontiers",
Organizers: Jinghua Guo and M. Zahid Hasan

* RIXS Workshop 2006
Joint Workshop
"Theoretical Perspectives of Resonant Inelastic Soft-X-Ray Scattering"

Organizer: Jinghua Guo
and
" Opportunities and Challenges for Momentum-Resolved Inelastic X-Ray Scattering"
Organizers: Jinghua Guo, M. Zahid Hasan, Zahid Hussain, Z.-X. Shen, and Sunil Sinha


* RIXS Workshop 2007
" Photon-In/Photon-Out Inelastic Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy in Renewable Energy Science"
Co-Chairs: Jinghua Guo and Franz Himpsel


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Selected Publications

   
“Electronic Structure of Cobalt Nanocrystals Suspended in Liquid”, H. J. Liu, J.-H. Guo, Y. D. Yin, A. Augustsson, C. L. Dong, J. Nordgren, C. L. Chang, P. Alivisatos, G. Thornton, D. F. Ogletree, F. G. Requejo, F. de Groot, and M. Salmeron, Nano Lett. 7, 1919 (2007).
“Electronic Origins of Structural Distortions in Post-Transition Metal Oxides: Experimental and Theoretical Evidence for a Revision of the Lone Pair Model”, D. J. Payne, R. G. Egdell, A. Walsh, G. W. Watson, J.-H. Guo, P.-A. Glans, T. Learmonth, and K. E. Smith, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 157403 (2006).
“Electron Correlation and Charge Transfer in [(Ba0.9Nd0.1)CuO2+?]2/[CaCuO2]2 Superconducting Superlattices”, B. Freelon, A. Augustsson, J.-H. Guo, P. G. Medaglia, A. Tebano, and G. Balestrino, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 017003 (2006).
"The molecular structure of alcohol-water mixtures", J.-H. Guo, Y. Luo, A. Augustsson, S. Kashtanov, J.-E. Rubensson, D. K. Shuh, H. Agren, and J. Nordgren, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 157401 (2003).
"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 (2002).
"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 (1998).
"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).
"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).
"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).
"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).
"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 (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).
   
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