Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2010-11-16
Phys. Rev. B 79, 174112 (2009)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
5 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.79.174112
Femtosecond dynamics of coherent optical phonons in GeTe/Sb$_{2}$Te$_{3}$ superlattices (SLs), a new class of semiconductor SLs with three different states, have been investigated by using a reflection-type pump-probe technique at various lattice temperatures. The time-resolved transient reflectivity (TR) obtained in as-grown SLs exhibits the coherent A$_{1}$ optical modes at 5.10 THz and 3.78 THz, while only the single A$_{1}$ mode at 3.68 THz is observed in annealed SLs. The decay rate of the A$_{1}$ mode in annealed SLs is strongly temperature dependent, while that in as-grown SLs is not temperature dependent. This result indicates that the damping of the coherent A$_{1}$ phonons in amorphous SLs is governed by the phonon-defect (vacancy) scattering rather than the anharmonic phonon-phonon coupling.
Hase Muneaki
Miyamoto Yoshinobu
Tominaga Junji
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