Generation and detection of shear acoustic waves in metal submicrometric films with ultrashort laser pulses

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 16, 2005, Pages

  Rossignol, C ^a   Rampnoux, J M ^b   Perton, M ^a   Audoin, B ^a   Dilhaire, S ^b  

^a University Bordeaux I2M UMR CNRS 5295   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DIFFRACTION; ACOUSTIC MODES; METAL SUBMICROMETRIC FILMS; SHEAR ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; DEMODULATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; THERMOELASTICITY; THIN FILMS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

SHEAR WAVES;

EID: 18144410248     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.166106     Document Type: Article

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