• 文献标题:   Femtosecond-laser-induced bond breaking and structural modifications in silicon, TiO2, and defective graphene: an ab initio molecular dynamics study
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZIJLSTRA E, ZIER T, BAUERHENNE B, KRYLOW S, GEIGER P, GARCIA M
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  • 出版物名称:   APPLIED PHYSICS AMATERIALS SCIENCE PROCESSING
  • ISSN:   0947-8396 EI 1432-0630
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Kassel
  • 被引频次:   14
  • DOI:   10.1007/s00339-013-8080-x
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

By exciting or heating electrons, ultrashort laser pulses have a direct influence on bond strengths in two- and three-dimensional solids. Here, we present results of ab initio molecular dynamics simulations performed using our in-house Code for Highly-excIted Valence Electron Systems (CHIVES) for three systems, which each shows a distinctly different structural response to a femtosecond laser pulse. In solid silicon, we show that ultrafast laser-induced bond breaking leads to nonthermal melting, a process which occurs in three stages, involving subsequently superdiffusive, fractionally diffusive, and normally diffusive atomic motions. For TiO, we find that the A phonon is coherently excited. At room temperature, we demonstrate that these oscillations are strongly coupled to other phonon modes. In graphene with a single Stone-Wales defect, we study the in-plane and out-of-plane laser-induced atomic motions and find bond breaking, which destroys the structure, when the electrons are heated to at least 31,000 K.