Ferroelectric soft mode in a SrTiO 3 thin film impulsively driven to the anharmonic regime using intense picosecond terahertz pulses

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Katayama, I ^a   Aoki, H ^a   Takeda, J ^a   Shimosato, H ^b   Ashida, M ^b,c   Kinjo, R ^b   Kawayama, I ^b   Tonouchi, M ^b   Nagai, M ^c,d   Tanaka, K ^c,d,e  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e ICeMS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION PEAKS; ANHARMONIC; ANHARMONIC OSCILLATORS; ANHARMONICITIES; FERROELECTRIC PHASE TRANSITION; FERROELECTRIC SOFT MODE; INHOMOGENEITIES; LARGE AMPLITUDE; PICOSECONDS; SPECTRAL NARROWING; SRTIO; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ PULSE;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL); STRONTIUM TITANATES; THIN FILMS;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 84863277596     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.097401     Document Type: Article

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