https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920504011
Amorphization in crystalline tellurium by femtosecond pulses
1 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
2 Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
* Corresponding author: yuhsiang@mit.edu
Published online: 16 April 2019
Crystalline tellurium undergoes amorphization after irradiation with strong femtosecond pulses. Steady-state reflectivity and single-shot transient reflectivity studies suggest the amorphization is due to thermal melting rather than non-thermal switching.
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