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Femtosecond solid-liquid phase transition studied with ultrafast x-ray diffraction

  • Sylvain Fourmaux
  • , Antoine Rousse
  • , Christian Rischel
  • , Ingo Uschmann
  • , Stéphane Sebban
  • , Philippe Balcou
  • , George Grillon
  • , Eckhart Förster
  • , Jean Claude Gauthier
  • , Danièle Hulin
  • Laboratory d'Optique Appliquée, ENSTA, CNRS-École Polytechnique
  • Niels Bohr Institutet
  • Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics
  • Friedrich-Schiller University
  • LULI

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Abstract

The femtosecond solid-liquid phase transition was studied with ultrafast X-ray diffraction. The ultrafast solid-liquid transition of InSb and CdTe semiconductors was characterized by time resolved x-ray diffraction in the femtosecond timescale. Visible spectroscopic data were obtained together with x-ray measurements to characterize the dense electron-hole plasma at the origin of the phase transition.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)26-33
Number of pages8
JournalProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume4504
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2001

Keywords

  • Femtosecond
  • InSb
  • Laser-produced plasma
  • Melting
  • Phase transition
  • Semiconductor
  • Ultrafast
  • X-ray
  • X-ray diffraction

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