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Type: 
Journal
Description: 
Optical pump-probe studies of cubic crystalline Ge2Sb2Te5/GaSb(001) have previously shown that the amplitude of a coherent optical phonon (COP) with frequency of 3.4 THz observed in the anisotropic reflectance (AR) signal exhibits a four-fold dependence upon the polarization of the probe beam. The appearance of the mode in the AR signal but not the reflectance (R) signal, and the dependence upon probe polarization, both suggest a three-dimensional mode character. Confirmation that this mode indeed has three-dimensional character, similar to the Raman inactive T2 mode in the pristine rock salt structure, is highly important in understanding the structure of the crystalline phase of Ge2Sb2Te5 that has important applications within data storage technology. A phonon of the same frequency has been observed in an epitaxial Ge2Sb2Te5/InAs(111) structure, suggesting that this phonon is indeed …
Publisher: 
Springer International Publishing
Publication date: 
1 Dec 2014
Authors: 

R Al-Saigh, A Shalini, GP Srivastava, RJ Hicken, R Calarco

Biblio References: 
Volume: 1661 Issue: 1 Pages: 22-27
Origin: 
MRS Online Proceedings Library