Publications 2016

17. "Interferometric analysis of laser-driven cylindrically focusing shock waves in a thin liquid layer," D. Veysset, A. A. Мaznev, T. Pezeril, S. Kooi and K. A. Nelson, Sci. Rep6, 24 (2016) [url]

16. "Bridging the gap to mesoscale radiation materials science with transient grating spectroscopy," C. A. Dennett, P. Cao, S. E. Ferry, A. Vega-Flick, A. A. Maznev, K. A. Nelson, A. G. Every, and M. P. Short, Phys. Rev. B 94, 214106 (2016) [url]

15. "Cooperative photoinduced metastable phase control in strained manganite films," J. Zhang, X. Tan, M. Liu, S. W. Teitelbaum, K. W. Post, F. Jin, K. A. Nelson, D. N. Basov, W. Wu and R. D. Averitt, Nat. Mater. 15, 956–960 (2016) [url]

14. "Ultrafast terahertz-field-driven ionic response in ferroelectric BaTiO3," F. Chen et alPhys. Rev. B 94, 180104(R) (2016) [url]

13. "Thermal transport in suspended silicon membranes measured by laser-induced transient gratings," A. Vega-Flick, R. A. Duncan, J. K. Eliason, J. Cuffe, J. A. Johnson, J.-P. M. Peraud, L. Zeng, Z. Lu, A. A. Maznev, E. N. Wang, J. J. Alvarado-Gil, M. Sledzinska, C. M. Sotomayor Torres, G. Chen, and K. A. Nelson, AIP Adv. 6, 121903 (2016) [url]

12. "Photo-excited charge carriers suppress sub-terahertz phonon mode in silicon at room temperature," B. Liao, A. A. Maznev, K. A. Nelson, and G. Chen, Nat. Commun. 7, 13174 (2016) [url]

11. "Nonlinear two-dimensional terahertz photon echo and rotational spectroscopy in the gas phase," J. Lu, Y. Zhang, H. Y. Hwang, B. K. Ofori-Okai, S. Fleischer, and K. A. Nelson, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA113 (42) 11800-11805 (2016) [url]

10. "Increase in elastic anisotropy of single crystal tungsten upon He-ion implantation measured with laser-generated surface acoustic waves," R. A. Duncan, F. Hofmann, A. Vega-Flick, J. K. Eliason, A. A. Maznev, A. G. Every, and K. A. Nelson, Appl. Phys. Lett. 109, 151906 (2016) [url]

9. "Dynamics of supersonic microparticle impact on elastomers revealed by real–time multi–frame imaging," D. Veysset, A. J. Hsieh, S. Kooi, A. A. Maznev, K. A. Masser and K. A. Nelson, Sci. Rep. 6:25577 (2016) [url]

8. "Monte Carlo study of non-diffusive relaxation of a transient thermal grating in thin membranes," L. Zeng, V. Chiloyan, S. Huberman, A. A. Maznev, J-P M. Peraud, N. G. Hadjiconstantinou, K. A. Nelson and G. Chen, Appl. Phys. Lett. 108, 063107 (2016) [url]

7. "Variational approach to extracting the phonon mean free path distribution from the spectral Boltzmann transport equation," V. Chiloyan, L. Zeng, S. Huberman, A. A. Maznev, K. A. Nelson, and G. Chen, Phys. Rev. B 93, 155201 (2016) [url]

6. "Resonant attenuation of surface acoustic waves by a disordered monolayer of microspheres," J. K. Eliason, A. Vega-Flick, M. Hiraiwa, A. Khanolkar, T. Gan, N. Boechler, N. Fang, K. A. Nelson, and A. A. Maznev, Appl. Phys. Lett., 108, 061907 (2016) [url]

5. "How two-dimensional brick layer J-aggregates differ from linear ones: Excitonic properties and line broadening mechanisms,"  A. G. Dijkstra, H. G. Duan, J. Knoester, K. A. Nelson, and J. Cao, J. Chem. Phys., 144, 134310 (2016) [url]

4. "THz generation using a reflective stair-step echelon," B. K. Ofori-Okai*, P. Sivarajah*, W. R. Huang, and K. A. Nelson, Optics Express24(5) 5057-5068 (2016) [url]

3. "The impact of sodium contamination in tin sulfide thin-film solar cells," V. Steinmann, R. E. Brandt, R. Chakraborty, R.  Jaramillo, M. Young, B. K., Ofori-Okai, C.  Yang, A. Polizzotti, K. A., Nelson, R. G. Gordon, and T. Buonassisi, APL Materials 4(2), 026103 (2016) [url]

2. "What is the Brillouin zone of an anisotropic photonic crystal?" P. Sivarajah, A. A. Maznev, B. K. Ofori-Okai, and K. A. Nelson, Phys. Rev. B., 93 054204 [url]

1. "Transient THz photoconductivity measurements of minority carrier lifetime in SnS thin films: Advanced metrology for an early-stage photovoltaic material," R. Jaramillo, M-J. Sher, B. K. Ofori-Okai, V. Steinmann, C. Yang, K. Hartman, K. A. Nelson, A. M. Lindenberg, R. G. Gordon, T. Buonassisi, J. Appl. Phys.119, 035101 (2016) [url]