Confined longitudinal acoustic phonon modes in free-standing Si membranes coherently excited by femtosecond laser pulses

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 20, 2009, Pages

  Hudert, Florian ^a   Bruchhausen, Axel ^a   Issenmann, Daniel ^a   Schecker, Olivier ^a   Waitz, Reimar ^a   Erbe, Artur ^a   Scheer, Elke ^a   Dekorsy, Thomas ^a   Mlayah, Adnen ^b   Huntzinger, Jean Roch ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

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EID: 67449096762     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.201307     Document Type: Article

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