Transient strain driven by a dense electron-hole plasma

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作者
DeCamp, MF [1 ]
Reis, DA
Cavalieri, A
Bucksbaum, PH
Clarke, R
Merlin, R
Dufresne, EM
Arms, DA
Lindenberg, AM
MacPhee, AG
Chang, Z
Lings, B
Wark, JS
Fahy, S
机构
[1] Univ Michigan, FOCUS Ctr, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[2] Univ Michigan, Dept Phys, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[3] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA USA
[4] Kansas State Univ, Dept Phys, Manhattan, KS 66506 USA
[5] Univ Oxford, Dept Phys, Clarendon Lab, Oxford OX1 3PU, England
[6] Univ Coll, Dept Phys, Cork, Ireland
[7] Univ Coll, NMRC, Cork, Ireland
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.165502
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O4 [物理学];
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摘要
We measure transient strain in ultrafast laser-excited Ge by time-resolved x-ray anomalous transmission. The development of the coherent strain pulse is dominated by rapid ambipolar diffusion. This pulse extends considerably longer than the laser penetration depth because the plasma initially propagates faster than the acoustic modes. X-ray diffraction simulations are in agreement with the observed dynamics.
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