Soon after it was discovered that intense laser pulses of nanosecond duration from a ruby
laser could anneal the lattice of silicon, it was established that this so-called pulsed laser …

This article gives an overview of recent x-ray diffraction experiments with time resolutions
down to 10− 13 s. The scientific motivation behind the development is outlined, using …

We investigated the initial modification and ablation of crystalline silicon with single and
multiple Ti: sapphire laser pulses of 5 to 400 fs duration. In accordance with earlier …

Ultrafast time-resolved optical spectroscopy has revealed new classes of physical, chemical
and biological reactions, in which directed, deterministic motions of atoms have a key role …

Generation of dense electron-hole plasmas in silicon with intense 100-fs laser pulses is
studied by time-resolved measurements of the optical reflectivity at 625 nm. For fluences F …

The motion of atoms on interatomic potential energy surfaces is fundamental to the
dynamics of liquids and solids. An accelerator-based source of femtosecond x-ray pulses …

Homogeneous nucleation is considered as a mechanism for rapid thermal melting of solids
irradiated with ultrashort laser pulses. Based on classical nucleation theory we show that for …

Thermal-and nonthermal melting in gallium arsenide after femtosecond laser excitation has
been investigated by means of time resolved microscopy. Electronic melting within a few …

Ultrafast structural dynamics in laser-perturbed InSb are studied using time-resolved x-ray
diffraction with a novel femtosecond x-ray source. We report the first observation of a delay …

Understanding the phase separation mechanism of solid-state binary compounds induced
by laser–material interaction is a challenge because of the complexity of the compound …