Ultrafast Materials Science–Representative Publications

Robert A. Kaindl

R. A. Kaindl, D. Hägele, M. A. Carnahan, D. S. Chemla, “Transient THz spectroscopy of excitons and unbound carriers in quasi-2D electron-hole gases”, submitted - http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.2080 (2008).

R. A. Kaindl, R. D. Averitt, “Time-resolved THz studies of carrier dynamics in semiconductors, superconductors, and strongly-correlated electron materials”, in: THz Spectroscopy: Principles & Applications (S. Dexheimer, Ed.), 119-170, CRC Press (2007).

T. Zentgraf, R. Huber, N. C. Nielsen, D.S. Chemla, and R. A. Kaindl, “Ultrabroadband 50-130 THz pulses generated via phase-matched difference frequency mixing in LiIO3”, Opt. Express 15, 5775 (2007).

R. A. Kaindl, D. Hägele, M. A. Carnahan, and D. S. Chemla, “Applications of Ultrafast THz Pulses for Intra-Excitonic Spectroscopy of Quasi-2D Electron-Hole Gases”, J. Nanoelectron. Optoelectron. 2, 83-89 (2007).

R. Huber, B. A. Schmid, Y.-R. Shen, D. S. Chemla, and R. A. Kaindl, “Stimulated Terahertz Emission from Intra-Excitonic Transitions in Cu2O”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 017402 (2006).

R. A. Kaindl, M. A. Carnahan, D. S. Chemla, S. Oh, and J. Eckstein, “Cooper pair formation dynamics in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8-d”, Phys. Rev. B 72, 060510(R) (2005).

R. A. Kaindl, M. A. Carnahan, D. Hägele, R. Lövenich and D. S. Chemla, “Ultrafast terahertz probes of transient conducting and insulating phases in an electron-hole gas”, Nature 423, 734 (2003).

Joseph W. Orenstein

A. Kumar, R. C. Rai, N. J. Podraza, S. Denev, M. Ramirez, Y. H. Chu, L. W. Martin, J. Ihlefeld, T. Heeg, J. Schubert, D. G. Schlom, J. Orenstein, R. Ramesh, R. W. Collins, J. L. Musfeldt, V. Gopalan, “Linear and nonlinear optical properties of BiFeO3”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 92, 121915 (2008).

M. O. Ramirez, M. Krishnamurthi, S. Denev, A. Kumar, S. Y. Yang, Y. H. Chu, E. Saiz, J. Seidel, A. P. Pyatakov, A. Bush, D. Viehland, J. Orenstein, R. Ramesh, V. Gopalan, “Two-phonon coupling to the antiferromagnetic phase transition in multiferroic BiFeO3”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 92, 022511 (2008).

J. Ihlefeld, A. Kumar, V. Gopalan, D. G. Schlom, Y. B. Chen, X. Q. Pan, T. Heeg, J. Schubert, X. Ke, P. Schiffer, J. Orenstein, L. W. Martin, Y. H. Chu, R. Ramesh, “Adsorption-controlled molecular-beam epitaxial growth of BiFeO3”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 91, 071922 (2007)

J.Orenstein, "Optical Conductivity and Spatial Inhomogeneity in Cuprate Superconductors", Handbook of High-Temperature Superconductivity, edited by J.R. Schrieffer and J.S. Brooks, Springer (2007).

C. P. Weber, J. Orenstein, B. A. Bernevig, S.-CC. Zhang, Jason Stephens, and D. D. Awschalom, "Non-diffusive spin dynamics in a two-dimensional electron gas", Phys. Rev. Lett., 98, 076604 (2007).

B. A. Bernevig, J. Orenstein, and S.-C. Zhang, "Exact SU(2) Symmetry and Persistent Spin Helix in a Spin-Orbit Coupled System", Phys. Rev. Lett., 97, 236601 (2006).

J. Orenstein, J. Corson, S. Oh, and J. N. Eckstein, "Superconducting fluctuations in Bi2Sr2Ca1-x DyxCu2O8+d as seen by terahertz spectroscopy", Annalen der Physik, 15 (7-8), 596-605 (2006).

C. P. Weber, N. Gedik, J. Orenstein, J. Stephens, and D. D. Awschalom, "Observation of spin Coulomb drag in a two-dimensional electron gas", Nature, 437, 1330 (2005).

N. Gedik, M. Langner, J. Orenstein, S. Ono, Yasushi Obe, and Yoichi Ando, "Abrupt transition in quasiparticle dynamics at optimal doping in a cuprate superconductor system" Phys. Rev. Lett., 95, 117005 (2005).

Robert W. Schoenlein

M. Rini, Z. Hao, R. W. Schoenlein, C. Giannetti, F. Parmigiani, S. Fourmaux, J. C. Kieffer, A. Fujimori, M. Onoda, S. Wall, and A. Cavalleri, “Optical switching in VO2 films by below-gap excitation,” Appl. Phys. Lett., 92, 181904 (2008).

D. Polli, M. Rini, S. Wall, R. W. Schoenlein, Y. Tomioka, Y. Tokura, G. Cerullo and A. Cavalleri, "Coherent Orbital Waves in the Photo-Induced Insulator-Metal Dynamics of a Magnetoresistive Manganite", Nature Materials 6 (9), 643-647 (2007).

M. Rini, R. Tobey, N. Dean, J. Itatani, Y. Tomioka, Y. Tokura, R. W. Schoenlein and A. Cavalleri, "Control of the Electronic Phase of a Manganite by Mode-Selective Vibrational Excitation", Nature 449 (7158), 72-74 (2007).

A. Cavalleri, S. Wall, C. Simpson, E. Statz, D.W. Ward, K.A. Nelson, M.Rini, and R.W. Schoenlein, “Tracking the motion of charges in a terahertz light field by femtosecond X-ray diffraction,” Nature, 442, 664-666 (2006).

J.M. Byrd, Z. Hao, M.C. Martin, D.S. Robin, F. Sannibale, R.W. Schoenlein, A.A. Zholents, and M.S. Zolotorev, “Tailored Terahertz Pulses from a Laser-Modulated Electron Beam,” Phys. Rev. Lett., 96, 164801, (2006).

A.Cavalleri, M.Rini, R.W. Schoenlein, “Ultra-broadband femtosecond measurements of the photo-induced phase transition in VO2: From the mid-IR to hard x-rays” J. Phys. Soc. Jap., 75, p. 011004, (2006).

M. Rini, A. Cavalleri, R.W. Schoenlein, R. López, L.C. Feldman, R.F. Haglund Jr., L.A. Boatner, T.E. Haynes, “Photoinduced phase transition in VO2 nanocrystals: ultrafast control of surface-plasmon resonance,” Opt. Lett., 30, p. 558 (2005).

A.Cavalleri, M. Rini, H.H.W. Chong, S. Fourmaux, T.E. Glover, P.A. Heimann, J.C. Kieffer, R.W. Schoenlein, “Band-Selective Measurements of Electron Dynamics in VO2 Using Femtosecond Near-Edge X-Ray Absorption,” Phys. Rev. Lett., 95, 067405 (2005).

Y. Ron Shen

F. Wang, Y. Wu, M. Y. Sfeir, L. M. Huang, J. Hone, S. O'Brien, L. E. Brus, T. F. Heinz, Y. R. Shen, "Multiphonon Raman Scattering from Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes", Physical Review Letters 98 (4), 047402 (2007).

F. Wang, "General Properties of Local Plasmons in Metal Nanostructures", Physical Review Letters 97 (20), 206806 (2006).

L. N. Zhang, Y. R. Shen, D. G. Cahill, "Competitive Molecular Adsorption at Liquid/Solid Interfaces: A Study by Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy", Journal of Physical Chemistry C 111 (5), 2069-2076 (2007).

N. Ji, C. Y. Chen, Y. R. Shen, "Phase-Sensitive Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy and Its Application to Studies of Interfacial Alkyl Chains", Journal of the American Chemical Society 129 (33), 10056 (2007).

Y. R. Shen, "Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy of Molecular Chirality", Trends and Perspectives in Modern Computational Science 6, 461-471 (2006).

W. T. Liu, Y. R. Shen, " Interfacial Structures of Methanol : Water Mixtures at a Hydrophobic Interface Probed by Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy", Journal of Chemical Physics 125 (14), 144711 (2006).