Ultrafast disordering of vanadium dimers in photoexcited VO

Autor: Simon, Wall, Shan, Yang, Luciana, Vidas, Matthieu, Chollet, James M, Glownia, Michael, Kozina, Tetsuo, Katayama, Thomas, Henighan, Mason, Jiang, Timothy A, Miller, David A, Reis, Lynn A, Boatner, Olivier, Delaire, Mariano, Trigo
Rok vydání: 2018
Zdroj: Science (New York, N.Y.). 362(6414)
ISSN: 1095-9203
Popis: Many ultrafast solid phase transitions are treated as chemical reactions that transform the structures between two different unit cells along a reaction coordinate, but this neglects the role of disorder. Although ultrafast diffraction provides insights into atomic dynamics during such transformations, diffraction alone probes an averaged unit cell and is less sensitive to randomness in the transition pathway. Using total scattering of femtosecond x-ray pulses, we show that atomic disordering in photoexcited vanadium dioxide (VO
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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