Femtosecond excitation of radial breathing mode in 2-D arrayed GaN nanorods

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 16611-16617

  Chen, Hung Pin ^a   Wu, Yueh Chun ^a   Mante, Pierre Adrien ^a   Tu, Shang Ju ^b   Sheu, Jinn Kong ^b   Sun, Chi Kuang ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM NITRIDE; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

BULK SUBSTRATES; CRITICAL FACTORS; DIAMETER DEPENDENT; ELASTIC STIFFNESS CONSTANT; ENERGY APPLICATIONS; FEMTOSECOND EXCITATION; FEMTOSECOND TRANSIENT; GAN NANORODS; OSCILLATION FREQUENCY; RADIAL BREATHING; RADIAL BREATHING MODE; SIZE-REDUCTION; SOFTENING EFFECT; SPECTROSCOPIC METHOD;

NANORODS;

EID: 84864129839     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.016611     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. K.-Q. Peng and S.-T. Lee, "Silicon Nanowires for Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion," Adv. Mater. (Deerfield Beach Fla.) 23(2), 198-215 (2011).
2. R. Yan, D. Gargas, and P. Yang, "Nanowire photonics," Nat. Photonics 3(10), 569-576 (2009).
3. C.-T. Huang, J. Song, W. F. Lee, Y. Ding, Z. Gao, Y. Hao, L. J. Chen, and Z. L. Wang, "GaN nanowire arrays for high-output Nanogenerators," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 132(13), 4766-4771 (2010).
4. R. Agrawal, B. Peng, and H. D. Espinosa, "Experimental-computational investigation of ZnO nanowires strength and fracture," Nano Lett. 9(12), 4177-4183 (2009).
5. J. Heo, W. Guo, and P. Bhattacharya, "Monolithic single GaN nanowire laser with photonic crystal microcavity on silicon," Appl. Phys. Lett. 98(2), 021110 (2011).
6. Y. Chen, I. Stevenson, R. Pouy, L. Wang, D. N. McIlroy, T. Pounds, M. G. Norton, and D. E. Aston, "Mechanical elasticity of vapour-liquid-solid grown GaN nanowires," Nanotechnology 18(13), 135708 (2007).
7. P. Yu, C. H. Chiu, Y.-R. Wu, H. H. Yen, J. R. Chen, C. C. Kao, H. W. Yang, H. C. Kuo, T. C. Lu, W. Y. Yeh, and S. C. Wang, "Strain relaxation induced microphotoluminescence characteristics of a single InGaN-based nanopillar fabricated by focused ion beam milling," Appl. Phys. Lett. 93(8), 081110 (2008).
8. R. A. Bernal, R. Agrawal, B. Peng, K. A. Bertness, N. A. Sanford, A. V. Davydov, and H. D. Espinosa, "Effect of growth orientation and diameter on the elasticity of GaN nanowires. A combined in situ TEM and atomistic modeling investigation," Nano Lett. 11(2), 548-555 (2011).
9. J. J. Brown, A. I. Baca, K. A. Bertness, D. A. Dikin, R. S. Ruoff, and V. M. Bright, "Tensile measurement of single crystal gallium nitride nanowires on MEMS test stages," Sens. Actuators A Phys. 166(2), 177-186 (2011).
10. C.-Y. Nam, P. Jaroenapibal, D. Tham, D. E. Luzzi, S. Evoy, and J. E. Fischer, "Diameter-dependent electromechanical properties of GaN nanowires," Nano Lett. 6(2), 153-158 (2006).
11. T. Henry, K. Kim, Z. Ren, C. Yerino, J. Han, and H. X. Tang, "Directed growth of horizontally aligned gallium nitride nanowires for nanoelectromechanical resonator arrays," Nano Lett. 7(11), 3315-3319 (2007).
12. S. O. Mariager, D. Khakhulin, H. T. Lemke, K. S. Kjaer, L. Guerin, L. Nuccio, C. B. Sørensen, M. M. Nielsen, and R. Feidenhansl, "Direct observation of acoustic oscillations in InAs nanowires," Nano Lett. 10(7), 2461-2465 (2010).
13. H. Lange, M. Mohr, M. Artemyev, U. Woggon, and C. Thomsen, "Direct observation of the radial breathing mode in CdSe Nanorods," Nano Lett. 8(12), 4614-4617 (2008).
14. C. Guillon, P. Langot, N. Del Fatti, F. Vallée, A. S. Kirakosyan, T. V. Shahbazyan, T. Cardinal, and M. Treguer, "Coherent acoustic vibration of metal nanoshells," Nano Lett. 7(1), 138-142 (2007).
15. A. Amziane, L. Belliard, F. Decremps, and B. Perrin, "Ultrafast acoustic resonance spectroscopy of gold nanostructures: Towards a generation of tunable transverse waves," Phys. Rev. B 83(1), 014102 (2011).
16. M. Hu, X. Wang, G. V. Hartland, P. Mulvaney, J. P. Juste, and J. E. Sader, "Vibrational response of nanorods to ultrafast laser induced heating: theoretical and experimental analysis," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125(48), 14925-14933 (2003).
17. C.-C. Yu, C.-F. Chu, J.-Y. Tsai, H.-W. Huang, T.-H. Hsueh, C.-F. Lin, and S.-C. Wang, "Gallium nitride nanorods fabricated by inductively coupled plasma reactive ion etching," Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 41(Part 2, No. 8B), L910-L912 (2002).
18. D. Zhaung and J. H. Edgar, "Wet etching of GaN, AlN, and SiC: a review," Mater. Sci. Eng. Rep. 48(1), 1-46 (2005).
19. M. Yamaguchi, T. Yagi, T. Azuhata, T. Sota, K. Suzuki, S. Chichibu, and S. Nakamura, "Brillouin scattering study of gallium nitride: elastic stiffness constants," J. Phys. Condens. Matter 9(1), 241-248 (1997).
20. J.-F. Robillard, A. Devos, I. Roch-Jeune, and P. A. Mante, "Collective acoustic modes in various two-dimensional crystals by ultrafast acoustics: Theory and experiment," Phys. Rev. B 78(6), 064302 (2008).
21. I. Vurgaftman and J. R. Meyer, "Band parameters for nitrogen-containing semiconductors," J. Appl. Phys. 94(6), 3675-3696 (2003).
22. A. Polian, M. Grimsditch, and I. Grzegory, "Elastic constants of gallium nitride," J. Appl. Phys. 79(6), 3343-3344 (1996).
23. Z. Wang, X. Zu, L. Yang, F. Gao, and W. J. Weber, "Molecular dynamics simulation on the buckling behavior of GaN nanowires under uniaxial compression," Physica E 40(3), 561-566 (2008).
24. A. Gulans and I. Tale, "Ab initio calculation of wurtzite-type GaN nanowires," Phys. Status Solidi., C Curr. Top. Solid State Phys. 4(3), 1197-1200 (2007).
25. H. Liang, M. Upmanyu, and H. Huang, "Size-dependent elasticity of nanowires: Nonlinear effects," Phys. Rev. B 71(24), 241403 (2005).