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The generation of coherent optical phonons in an antimony film has been directly observed by the femtosecond electron diffraction method. The sample has been excited by a femtosecond laser pulse (λ = 800 nm) and probed with a pulsed photoelectron beam. Oscillations of the intensity corresponding to vibration frequencies of optical phonons excited by the laser have been observed in the obtained diffraction patterns: totally symmetric (A 1g) and twofold degenerate (E 2g) phonon modes of antimony and their combinations.
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Original Russian Text © B.N. Mironov, V.O. Kompanets, S.A. Aseev, A.A. Ishchenko, O.V. Misochko, S.V. Chekalin, E.A. Ryabov, 2016, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Eksperimental’noi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, 2016, Vol. 103, No. 8, pp. 597–601.
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Mironov, B.N., Kompanets, V.O., Aseev, S.A. et al. Direct observation of the generation of coherent optical phonons in thin antimony films by the femtosecond electron diffraction method. Jetp Lett. 103, 531–534 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364016080099
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