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Large non-thermal contribution to picosecond strain pulse generation using the photo-induced phase transition in VO2.


ABSTRACT: Picosecond strain pulses are a versatile tool for investigation of mechanical properties of meso- and nano-scale objects with high temporal and spatial resolutions. Generation of such pulses is traditionally realized via ultrafast laser excitation of a light-to-strain transducer involving thermoelastic, deformation potential, or inverse piezoelectric effects. These approaches unavoidably lead to heat dissipation and a temperature rise, which can modify delicate specimens, like biological tissues, and ultimately destroy the transducer itself limiting the amplitude of generated picosecond strain. Here we propose a non-thermal mechanism for generating picosecond strain pulses via ultrafast photo-induced first-order phase transitions (PIPTs). We perform experiments on vanadium dioxide VO2 films, which exhibit a first-order PIPT accompanied by a lattice change. We demonstrate that during femtosecond optical excitation of VO2 the PIPT alone contributes to ultrafast expansion of this material as large as 0.45%, which is not accompanied by heat dissipation, and, for excitation density of 8?mJ?cm-2, exceeds the contribution from thermoelastic effect by a factor of five.

SUBMITTER: Mogunov IA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7125085 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Large non-thermal contribution to picosecond strain pulse generation using the photo-induced phase transition in VO<sub>2</sub>.

Mogunov Iaroslav A IA   Lysenko Sergiy S   Fedianin Anatolii E AE   Fernández Félix E FE   Rúa Armando A   Kent Anthony J AJ   Akimov Andrey V AV   Kalashnikova Alexandra M AM  

Nature communications 20200403 1


Picosecond strain pulses are a versatile tool for investigation of mechanical properties of meso- and nano-scale objects with high temporal and spatial resolutions. Generation of such pulses is traditionally realized via ultrafast laser excitation of a light-to-strain transducer involving thermoelastic, deformation potential, or inverse piezoelectric effects. These approaches unavoidably lead to heat dissipation and a temperature rise, which can modify delicate specimens, like biological tissues  ...[more]

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