Extreme ultraviolet transient absorption of solids from femtosecond to attosecond timescales

Borja, Lauren J.; Zürch, M.; Pemmaraju, C. D.; Schultze, Martin; Ramasesha, Krupa; Gandman, Andrey; Prell, James S.; Prendergast, David; Neumark, Daniel M.; Leone, Stephen R.

doi:10.1364/JOSAB.33.000C57

Title: Extreme ultraviolet transient absorption of solids from femtosecond to attosecond timescales

Journal Article · Tue Apr 26 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Journal of the Optical Society of America. Part B, Optical Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.33.000C57· OSTI ID:1502120

Borja, Lauren J. ^[1]; Zürch, M. ^[1]; Pemmaraju, C. D. ^[2]; Schultze, Martin ^[3]; Ramasesha, Krupa ^[4]; Gandman, Andrey ^[5]; Prell, James S. ^[6]; Prendergast, David ^[2]; Neumark, Daniel M. ^[7]; Leone, Stephen R. ^[7]

Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ., Garching (Germany)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa (Israel)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of Oregon, Eugene, OR (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

High-harmonic generation (HHG) produces ultrashort pulses of extreme ultraviolet radiation (XUV), which can be used for pump–probe transient absorption spectroscopy in metal oxides, semiconductors, and dielectrics. Femtosecond transient absorption on iron and cobalt oxides identifies ligand-to-metal charge transfer as the main spectroscopic transition, rather than metal-to-metal charge transfer or d–d transitions, upon photoexcitation in the visible. In silicon, attosecond transient absorption reveals that electrons tunnel into the conduction band from the valence band under strong-field excitation, to energies as high as 6 eV above the conduction band minimum. Here, the extensions of these experiments to other semiconductors, such as germanium, and other transition metal oxides, such as vanadium dioxide, are discussed. Germanium is of particular interest because it should be possible to follow both electron and hole dynamics in a single measurement using transient XUV absorption.

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Research Organization:: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC04-94AL85000; AC02-05CH11231; FA9550-10-1-0195

OSTI ID:: 1502120

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1249773

Report Number(s):: SAND-2019-2819J; JOBPDE; 673424

Journal Information:: Journal of the Optical Society of America. Part B, Optical Physics, Vol. 33, Issue 7; ISSN 0740-3224

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Country of Publication:: United States

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