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ArticleJournal of electronic materials2025

Electronic Melting of Silicon in Nanostructures using X-ray Forbidden Bragg Reflections.

Ian Robinson, David Yang, Longlong Wu, Hyunjung Kim, Sung Soo Ha, Sungwook Choi, Changyong Song, Junha Hwang, Seung-Phil Heo, Jaeku Park and 2 more

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Ian RobinsonBrookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4897-5221
David YangBrookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 USA.
Longlong WuBrookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 USA.
Hyunjung KimCenter for Ultrafast Phase Transformation, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea.
Sung Soo HaCenter for Ultrafast Phase Transformation, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea.
Sungwook ChoiCenter for Ultrafast Phase Transformation, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea.
Changyong SongDept. of Physics, POSTECH, Pohang, Korea.
Junha HwangDept. of Physics, POSTECH, Pohang, Korea.
Seung-Phil HeoDept. of Physics, POSTECH, Pohang, Korea.
Jaeku ParkPAL-XFEL, Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Pohang, Korea.
Intae EomPAL-XFEL, Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Pohang, Korea.
Sunam KimPAL-XFEL, Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Pohang, Korea.

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Abstract

We carried out a short beamtime at the Pohang Accelerator Laboratory x-ray Free Electron Laser to perform a pump-probe (PP) laser excitation diffraction experiment on the silicon (222) forbidden Bragg peak. To limit the x-ray penetration, we used a "device layer" silicon film wafer bonded to a silicon substrate. The sample, specially fabricated by MEMC Electronic Materials, had a Si(100) substrate bonded to a 170 nm Si(100) film rotated at 45° for crystallographic isolation. A second sample was reactive-ion-etched down to 52 nm thickness. In the silicon lattice, the covalent bonds are seen exclusively at the 222 reflection. Upon laser excitation, these electrons are expected to be excited to the valence band on femtosecond electronic time scales. The Si(222) reflection is therefore expected to be extinguished on this fast time scale, while the electron-phonon coupled acoustic response is determined by the lattice dynamics. The latter is determined by the speed of sound over the device thickness, which is in the mid-picosecond range.

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forbidden reflectionsLaser excitationnon-thermal meltingsiliconvalence electrons

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PMID40491601
PMCPMC12145307

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