Ultra-fast Time-Resolved Electron Diffraction of Strongly Driven Phase Transitions on Silicon Surfaces

2009 ◽  
Vol 1230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Möllenbeck ◽  
Anja Hanisch-Blicharski ◽  
Paul Schneider ◽  
Manuel Ligges ◽  
Ping Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Phase Transitions ◽  
Electron Diffraction ◽  
Structural Phase ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Silicon Surfaces ◽  
Fast Time ◽  
Time Resolved ◽  
Disorder Phase Transition ◽  
Pulse Pump

AbstractThe dynamics of strongly driven phase transitions at surfaces are studied by ultra-fast time-resolved reflection high energy electron diffraction. The surfaces are excited by an intense fs-laser pulse (pump) and probed by an ultra-short electron pulse with variable time delay. The order-disorder phase transition from a c(4×2) to a (2×1) of the bare Si(001) surface shows a transient decrease of the intensity of the c(4×2) spots which recovers on a time scale of a few hundred picoseconds indicating the excitation of the phase transition. On Si(111) a monolayer of Indium induces a (4×1) reconstruction which undergoes a Peierls like phase transition to a (8ד2”) reconstruction below 100 K. Upon laser excitation at a temperature of 40 K the phase transition was strongly driven. The (8ד2”)-diffraction spots instantaneously disappears, while the intensity of the (4×1)-spots increases. This increase of the (4×1) spot intensity excludes an explanation by the Debye-Waller-Effect and is evidence for a true structural phase transition at a surface.

PROBING PHOTOINDUCED STRUCTURAL PHASE TRANSITIONS BY FAST OR ULTRA-FAST TIME-RESOLVED X-RAY DIFFRACTION

2004 ◽  
pp. 309-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hervé Cailleau ◽  
Eric Collet ◽  
Marylise Buron-Le Cointe ◽  
Marie-Hélène Lemée-Cailleau ◽  
Shin-ya Koshihara
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transitions ◽  
Structural Phase ◽  
Fast Time ◽  
Structural Phase Transitions ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
Time Resolved ◽  
X Ray

scholarly journals The origin of the lattice thermal conductivity enhancement at the ferroelectric phase transition in GeTe

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Đorđe Dangić ◽  
Olle Hellman ◽  
Stephen Fahy ◽  
Ivana Savić
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Thermal Conductivity ◽  
Phase Transitions ◽  
Thermoelectric Materials ◽  
Ferroelectric Phase Transition ◽  
Lattice Thermal Conductivity ◽  
Ferroelectric Phase ◽  
Structural Phase ◽  
High Symmetry ◽  
Structural Phase Transitions

AbstractThe proximity to structural phase transitions in IV-VI thermoelectric materials is one of the main reasons for their large phonon anharmonicity and intrinsically low lattice thermal conductivity κ. However, the κ of GeTe increases at the ferroelectric phase transition near 700 K. Using first-principles calculations with the temperature dependent effective potential method, we show that this rise in κ is the consequence of negative thermal expansion in the rhombohedral phase and increase in the phonon lifetimes in the high-symmetry phase. Strong anharmonicity near the phase transition induces non-Lorentzian shapes of the phonon power spectra. To account for these effects, we implement a method of calculating κ based on the Green-Kubo approach and find that the Boltzmann transport equation underestimates κ near the phase transition. Our findings elucidate the influence of structural phase transitions on κ and provide guidance for design of better thermoelectric materials.

Temperature-triggered order–disorder phase transition in molecular-ionic material N-butyldiethanolammonium picrate monohydrate

RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (73) ◽  
pp. 69546-69550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tariq Khan ◽  
Muhammad Adnan Asghar ◽  
Zhihua Sun ◽  
Chengmin Ji ◽  
Lina Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Structural Phase Transition ◽  
Structural Phase ◽  
Dielectric Materials ◽  
Disorder Phase Transition ◽  
First Order ◽  
Oxygen Atoms

We report an organic–ionic material that undergoes a first-order structural phase transition, induced by order–disorder of oxygen atoms in picrate anion. This strategy offers a potential pathway to explore new switchable dielectric materials.

Parameterization of the coupling between strain and order parameter for LuF[SeO3]

2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 701-711 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oxana V. Magdysyuk ◽  
Melanie Müller ◽  
Robert E. Dinnebier ◽  
Christian Lipp ◽  
Thomas Schleid
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Order Parameter ◽  
Structural Phase ◽  
High Temperature Phase ◽  
Temperature Phase ◽  
Time Resolved ◽  
Synchrotron Powder Diffraction ◽  
First Order Phase Transition ◽  
Temperature Phase Transition ◽  
First Order Phase

The high-temperature phase transition of LuF[SeO3] has been characterized by time-resolved high-resolution synchrotron powder diffraction. On heating, a second-order structural phase transition was found at 393 K, while on cooling the same phase transition occurs at 371 K, showing a large hysteresis typical for a first-order phase transition. Detailed analysis using sequential and parametric whole powder pattern fitting revealed that the coupling between the strain and the displacive order parameter determines the behaviour of the material during the phase transition. Different possible coupling mechanisms have been evaluated and the most probable rationalized.

Structural-phase transition in (Cu2Te)2−x(ZnTe)x at high temperature

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150113
Author(s):  
H. B. Gasimov ◽  
R. M. Rzayev
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Phase Transitions ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Single Crystals ◽  
Structural Phase ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Temperature Range ◽  
Xrd Study ◽  
Xrd Method

Cu2Te single crystal was grown by the Bridgman method. X-ray diffraction (XRD) study of Cu2Te single crystals in the temperature range of 293–893 K was performed and possible phase transitions in the mentioned range of temperature have been investigated. (Cu2Te)[Formula: see text](ZnTe)[Formula: see text] single crystals also were grown with [Formula: see text], 0.05, 0.10 concentrations and structural properties of the obtained single crystals were investigated by the XRD method in the temperature range 293–893 K. Lattice parameters and possible phase transitions in the mention temperature range were determined for (Cu2Te)[Formula: see text](ZnTe)[Formula: see text] single crystals for [Formula: see text], 0.05, 0.10 concentrations.

Femtosecond electron diffraction studies of strongly driven structural phase transitions

2004 ◽  
Vol 299 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 285-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley J. Siwick ◽  
Jason R. Dwyer ◽  
Robert E. Jordan ◽  
R.J.Dwayne Miller
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transitions ◽  
Electron Diffraction ◽  
Structural Phase ◽  
Structural Phase Transitions ◽  
Femtosecond Electron Diffraction
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