Non-thermal melting in semiconductors measured at femtosecond resolution

By A. Rousse, C. Rischel, S. Fourmaux, I. Uschmann, S. Sebban, G. Grillon, Philippe Balcou, E. Förster, J. Geindre, P. Audebert and 2 more. Nature, 2001

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Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Computational Mechanics, Mechanics of Materials

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• Femtosecond laser near-field ablation from gold nanoparticles (2006, background): “Work on ultrafast X-ray (and electron) scattering on photo-excited matter has led to the discovery of new modes of phase transition”
• Inducing and probing non-thermal transitions in semiconductors using femtosecond laser pulses (2002, background): “Recent ultrafast time-resolved X-ray diffraction shows a decrease in diffracted X-ray intensity in as little as 350 fs (ref”
• Femtosecond electron diffraction: heralding the era of atomically resolved dynamics (2011, methodology): “Experiments with improved temporal resolution using plasmagenerated fs-x-ray pulses were performed by Sokowsky-Tinten et al [53] in their study of Ge and Rousse et al [52] who studied InSb to take advantage of the higher diffraction cross section associated with high-Z materials.”
• Femtosecond x rays from laser-plasma accelerators (2013, positive): “…ago, these sources have been widely developed and have led to the first structural dynamics experiments at the femtosecond time scale (Rischel et al. , 1997; Rose-Petruck et al. , 1999; Siders et al. , 1999; Cavalleri et al. , 2001; Rousse et al. , 2001; Sokolowski-Tinten et al. , 2001, 2003).”
• Applications of laser wakefield accelerator-based light sources (2016, background): “Non thermal melting was later observed with 100 fs resolution on InSb [259], where a silicon K-α (1.8 keV) source was used.”
• Recent developments in compact ultrafast lasers (2003, background): “Ultrafast 'non-thermal' melting in semiconductors has been observed, where a solid-to-liquid phase transition occurs faster than carrier–lattice equilibration time”