TY - JOUR A1 - Frigge, Tim A1 - Kalus, Annika A1 - Klasing, Friedrich A1 - Kammler, Martin A1 - Hanisch-Blicharski, Anja A1 - Horn-von Hoegen, Michael T1 - Nanoscale Heat Transport in Self-Organized Ge Clusters on Si(001) JF - MRS Online Proceedings Library N2 - Ultrafast time resolved transmission electron diffraction (TED) in a reflection geometry was used to study the cooling behavior of self-organized, well defined nanoscale germanium hut and dome clusters on Si(001). The clusters were heated in a pump-probe scheme by fs-laser pulses. The resulting transient temperature rise was then determined from the drop in diffraction intensity caused by the Debye-Waller effect. From a cooling time of τ=177 ps we estimated a strongly reduced heat transfer compared with homogeneous films of equivalent thickness. Y1 - 2012 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1557/opl.2013.148 SP - 45 EP - 50 PB - Springer ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hanisch-Blicharski, Anja A1 - Janzen, Andreas A1 - Krenzer, Boris A1 - Wall, S. A1 - Klasing, Friedrich A1 - Kalus, Annika A1 - Frigge, Tim A1 - Kammler, Martin A1 - Horn-von Hoegen, Michael T1 - Ultra-fast electron diffraction at surfaces: from nanoscale heat transport to driven phase transitions JF - Ultramicroscopy N2 - Many fundamental processes of structural changes at surfaces occur on a pico- or femtosecond time scale. In order to study such ultra-fast processes, we have combined modern surface science techniques with fs-laser pulses in a pump-probe scheme. Reflection high energy electron diffraction (RHEED) with grazing incident electrons ensures surface sensitivity for the probing electron pulses. Utilizing the Debye-Waller effect, we studied the cooling of vibrational excitations in monolayer adsorbate systems or the nanoscale heat transport from an ultra-thin film through a hetero-interface on the lower ps-time scale. The relaxation dynamics of a driven phase transition far away from thermal equilibrium is demonstrated with the In-induced (8×2) reconstruction on Si(111). This surface exhibits a Peierls-like phase transition at 100K from a (8×2) ground state to (4×1) excited state. Upon excitation by a fs-laser pulse, this structural phase transition is driven into an excited (4×1) state at a sample temperature of 20K. Relaxation into the (8×2) ground state occurs after more than 150 ps. Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2012.07.017 VL - 127 SP - 2 EP - 8 PB - Elsevier ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Streubühr, C. A1 - Kalus, Annika A1 - Zhou, Ping A1 - Ligges, Manuel A1 - Hanisch-Blicharski, Anja A1 - Kammler, Martin A1 - Bovensiepen, U. A1 - Horn-von Hoegen, Michael A1 - von der Linde, D. T1 - Comparing ultrafast surface and bulk heating using time-resolved electron diffraction JF - Applied Physics Letters N2 - From measurements of the transient Debye-Waller effect in Bismuth, we determine the buildup time of the random atomic motion resulting from the electronic relaxation after short pulse laser excitation. The surface sensitive reflection high energy electron diffraction and transmission electron diffraction yield a time constant of about 12 ps and 3 ps, respectively. The different energy transfer rates indicate relatively weak coupling between bulk and surface vibrational modes. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC. Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4872055 VL - 104 SP - 1 EP - 3 PB - American Institute of Physics ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Zhou, Ping A1 - Streubühr, C. A1 - Kalus, Annika A1 - Frigge, Tim A1 - Wall, S. A1 - Hanisch-Blicharski, Anja A1 - Kammler, Martin A1 - Ligges, Manuel A1 - Bovensiepen, U. A1 - von der Linde, D. A1 - Horn-von Hoegen, Michael T1 - Ultrafast time resolved reflection high energy electron diffraction with tilted pump pulse fronts T2 - EPJ Web of Conferences - XVIIIth International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena N2 - We present time-resolved RHEED from a laser excited Pb(111) surface using a pulse front tilter for the compensation of the velocity mismatch of electrons and light. The laser pulses with tilted fronts were characterized by a spatially resolving cross correlator. The response of the surface upon excitation was observed to be less than 2 ps. Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20134110016 VL - 41 PB - EPJ ER -