Detection of nonthermal melting by ultrafast X-ray diffraction
In: Science, Vol. 286 (1999), No. 5443, pp. 1340 - 1342
1999article/chapter in journal
Physics (incl. Astronomy)Faculty of Physics » Experimental Physics
Title:
Detection of nonthermal melting by ultrafast X-ray diffraction
Author:
Siders, Craig W.;Cavalleri, Andrea;Sokolowski-Tinten, KlausUDE
- GND
- 172725364
- LSF ID
- 13459
- ORCID
- 0000-0002-7979-5357
- Other
- connected with university
- LSF ID
- 50189
- Other
- connected with university
- GND
- 1201039908
- LSF ID
- 10366
- ORCID
- 0000-0003-0324-3457
- Other
- connected with university
- GND
- 121993092X
- LSF ID
- 10402
- ORCID
- 0000-0001-5618-3879
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- connected with university
Year of publication:
1999
Abstract:
Using ultrafast, time-resolved, 1.54 angstrom x-ray diffraction, thermal and ultrafast nonthermal melting of germanium, involving passage through nonequilibrium extreme states of matter, was observed. Such ultrafast, optical-pump, x-ray diffraction probe measurements provide a way to study many other transient processes in physics, chemistry, and biology, including direct observation of the atomic motion by which many solid-state processes and chemical and biochemical reactions take place.