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We’ve studied the sub-picosecond response of an organometallic Langmuir-Blodgett film to an ultrashort laser excitation using ultrafast time-resolved x-ray diffraction. The ultrafast and monochromatic Kα x-ray source is produced from the interaction of an intense 100 fs laser pulse with a silicon solid target. Disordering in the film has been found to rise in less than 1 ps at pumping fluences larger than 20 J/cm2.
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Rousse, A. et al. (1998). Disorder in Solids Studied on an Ultrashort Timescale using Femtosecond X-Ray Diffraction. In: Ultrafast Phenomena XI. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 63. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72289-9_118
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