Optically-excited acoustic waves in Si nanowires probed by time-resolved HOLZ lines

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/ade250

Abstract Exploring advanced techniques capable of probing nanometric acoustic waves in nanostructures is critically important for the development of miniaturized acoustic devices. In this study, we probe the optically-excited acoustic waves in a single silicon nanowire (NW) using the time-resolved (tr-) high-order Laue-zone (HOLZ) lines under convergent-beam electron diffraction (CBED) conditions in an ultrafast transmission electron microscope (UTEM). We devise an experimental scheme to obtain tr-HOLZ lines under off-zone-axis CBED conditions. We also propose a geometric description of HOLZ line formation and use this alternative description to quantitatively evaluate the dynamics of optically-excited silicon NW. Using part of the deformation gradient tensor, our simulations of the dynamics of Si NW reproduce the experimental results. We further discuss the feasibility of a full retrieval of the deformation gradient tensor by using a set of HOLZ lines from three zone axes. Our findings illustrate a strategy for the quantitative access to dynamical acoustic waves optically excited in micro- and nano-structures using UTEM.

Keywords: ultrafast transmission electron microscope high-order Laue-zone lines pulsed laser excitation acoustic waves

Received: 10 May 2025
Revised: 06 June 2025
Accepted manuscript online: 09 June 2025

PACS:	87.64.Ee	(Electron microscopy)
	61.05.jm	(Convergent-beam electron diffraction, selected-area electron diffraction, nanodiffraction)

Fund: This project is supported by the Guangxi Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 2024GXNSFDA010014), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 12364018 and U22A6005), the Guangxi Science and Technology Major Program (Grant No. AA23073019), and the Innovation Project of Guangxi Graduate Education (Grant Nos. YCBZ2022049 and YCBZ2023015).

Corresponding Authors: Tiejun Zhou, Zian Li
E-mail: LJQ@iphy.ac.cn;zianli@gxu.edu.cn

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He Wang(王贺), Shuaishuai Sun(孙帅帅), Yizhe Wang(王怡哲), Qianming An(安乾明), Xianhui Ye(叶显珲), Jun Li(李俊), Huanfang Tian(田焕芳), Huaixin Yang(杨槐馨), Jianqi Li(李建奇), and Zian Li(李子安) Optically-excited acoustic waves in Si nanowires probed by time-resolved HOLZ lines 2025 Chin. Phys. B 34 098701

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