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MM: Ultrafast Processes in Materials Science

November 30 - December 2, 2009
Chairs

Aaron M. Lindenberg		Stanford University
David Reis		University of Michigan
Paul Fuoss		Argonne National Laboratory
Thomas Tschentscher		Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
Bradley Siwick		McGill University

Symposium Support
Blake Industries Inc
U. S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences - Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division
U. S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences - Materials Sciences and Engineering Division

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* Invited paper

SESSION MM1: Short Wavelength Sources
Chair: Bradley Siwick
Monday Morning, November 30, 2009
Room 201 (Hynes)
8:00 AM *MM1.1
Ultrafast X-ray Imaging with Free-Electron Lasers. Henry N. Chapman, Centre for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, Hamburg, Germany; Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

8:30 AM MM1.2
Collinear Generation of Few-cycle UV and XUV Laser Pulses for Probing and Controlling Ultrafast Electron Dynamics at Solid Interfaces. Agustin Schiffrin¹, Elisabeth Botschafter¹, Ralph Ernstorfer^2,1, Adrian Cavalieri¹, Markus Fiess¹, Ulrich Graf¹, Eleftherios Goulielmakis¹, Giulio Alighieri¹, Reinhard Kienberger^2,1 and Ferenc Krausz^1,3; ¹Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany; ²Physics, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany; ³Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Garching, Germany.

8:45 AM *MM1.3
Ultracold Electron Source for Single-shot, Ultrafast Electron Diffraction. Jom Luiten, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands.

9:15 AM *MM1.4
RF Photoinjector Based Ultrafast Electron Diffraction. Pietro Musumeci, Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, Los Angeles, California.

9:45 AM MM1.5
Electron Bunch Compression for Single Shot 100 fs Electron Diffraction. Thijs van Oudheusden¹, Brad Siwick² and Jom Luiten¹; ¹Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands; ²Departments of Physics and Chemistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

10:00 AM BREAK

SESSION MM2: Dynamics of Nanomaterials
Chair: David Reis
Monday Morning, November 30, 2009
Room 201 (Hynes)
10:30 AM MM2.1
Multipath Generation of Coherent Phonons in Quantum Dots. Patanjali Kambhampati, Chemistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

10:45 AM MM2.2
Magnetization Dynamics in Superparamagnetic Co_xFe_3-xO₄ Nanocrystals. Dong Hee Son, Tai-Yen Chen and Chih-Hao Hsia; Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.

11:00 AM MM2.3
Ultrafast Phase Change Kinetics in Nanocrystalline Superionic Copper (I) Sulfide. Timothy A. Miller^1,2, Steven T. Connor¹, Yi Cui¹ and Aaron M. Lindenberg^1,2; ¹Materials Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California; ²PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, California.

11:15 AM MM2.4
Ultrafast Mid-Infrared Intra-Excitonic Response of Individualized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. Jigang Wang^1,2, M. W. Graham³, Y. Z. Ma³, G. R. Fleming³ and R. A. Kaindl²; ¹Physics, Iowa State University and Ames Lab, Ames, Iowa; ²Materials Sciences Division, E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California; ³Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California.

11:30 AM MM2.5
Optical Phonon Lifetimes in Graphene and Graphite by Time-resolved Incoherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering. Kwangu Kang¹, Daner Abdula^2,3, David G. Cahill^2,3 and Moonsub Shim^2,3; ¹Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, South; ²Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois; ³Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.

11:45 AM MM2.6
Femtosecond Multi-Particle Auger Recombination of Photoexcited Dirac Fermions in Graphene. Tianqi Li, John J. Solomon, Myron Hupalo, Michael C. Tringides and Jigang Wang; Physics, Iowa State University and Ames Lab, Ames, Iowa.

SESSION MM3: Phase Transitions and Structural Dynamics
Chair: Aaron Lindenberg
Monday Afternoon, November 30, 2009
Room 201 (Hynes)
1:30 PM *MM3.1
XAFS of the Ge2Sb2Te5 Memory Alloy - From Static Studies to Time-resolved Sub-nanosecond in-situ Experiments. Alexander Kolobov^1,2, Paul J. Fons^1,2, Hitoshi Ohsawa², Toshio Fukaya^1,2, Motohiro Suzuki², Tomoya Uruga², Robert Simpson¹, Naomi Kawamura², Masafumi Takagaki², Hajime Tanida², Milos Krbal¹ and Junji Tominaga¹; ¹CANFOR, AIST, Tsukuba, Japan; ²SPring8, JASRI, Sayo, Japan.

2:00 PM MM3.2
Sub-picosecond Non-thermal Structure Change in a GeSbTe Film Induced by Femtosecond Single Pulse Excitation. Toshiharu Saiki, Mitsutaka Konishi, Hisashi Santoh, Yuki Hongo and Kazuyuki Tajima; Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Keio University, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.

2:15 PM MM3.3
Time Resolved Optical Studies of Nano-structured Phase Change Materials. Robert E. Simpson, Toshio Fukaya, Paul J. Fons, Xiaomin Wang, Milos Krbal, Alex Kolobov, Reiko Kondou and Junji Tominaga; CAN-FOR, AIST, Tsukuba, IBARAKI, Japan.

2:30 PM MM3.4
Sub Nano-second Time Resolved XAFS Measurements of the Optical Recording Process in Ge₂Sb₂Te₅ at the Te K-edge. Paul J. Fons^1,2, Hiroshi Osawa², Alexander Kolobov^1,2, Tomoya Uruga², Hajime Tanida², Robert Simpson¹, Milos Krbal¹ and Junji Tominaga¹; ¹Center for Applied Near-Field Optics Research, Nat. Inst. of Adv. Ind. Sci. & Tech., Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; ²SPring-8, Japan Synchrotron Radiation, 1-1-1, Kouto, Sayo-cho, Hyogo-ken, Japan.

2:45 PM MM3.5
Extreme Phonon Softening in Laser-excited Bismuth - Towards an Inverse Peierls-transition. Klaus Sokolowski-Tinten¹, Wei Lu¹, Uladzimir Shymanovich¹, Matthieu Nicoul^2,1, Alexander Tarasevitch¹, Martin Kammler¹, Michael Horn von Hoegen¹ and Dietrich von der Linde¹; ¹University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany; ²University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:30 PM *MM3.6
Ultrafast Structural Dynamics Observed with Atomic Scale Resolution. Nuh Gedik, Physics, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

4:00 PM *MM3.7
Direct Measurement of Transient Electric Fields Induced By Ultrafast Pulsed Laser Irradiation. Jian-Min Zuo^1,2 and Hyuk Park^1,2; ¹Materials Science, Univ. Illinois, Urbana, Urbana, Illinois; ²Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.

4:30 PM MM3.8
Ultrafast Lattice Heating in Thin Metal Films Observed by Time Resolved Electron Diffraction. Manuel Ligges, Ping Zhou, Ivan Rajkovic, Oliver Posth, Christoph Hassel, Guenter Dumpich and Dietrich von der Linde; Institut für Experimentelle Physik, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, NRW, Germany.

4:45 PM MM3.9
Ultra Fast Time Resolved Electron Diffraction Study of Strongly Driven Phase Transitions on Silicon Surfaces. Simone Moellenbeck, Anja Hanisch-Blicharski, Friedrich Klasing, Paul Schneider, Boris Krenzer, Martin Kammler and Michael Horn-von Hoegen; Department of Physics, University Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany.

SESSION MM4: Ferroelectric and Ferromagnetic Dynamics
Chair: Paul Fuoss
Tuesday Morning, December 1, 2009
Room 201 (Hynes)
8:00 AM *MM4.1
X-ray Diffraction Probes for Electrically Driven Dynamics in Complex Oxides. Paul Evans, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.

8:30 AM MM4.2
Comparison of Ultrafast X-ray and Optical Techniques for Functional Multilayers. Matias Bargheer^1,2, Marc Herzog¹, Mareike Kiel² and Wolfram Leitenberger¹; ¹Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany; ²Max-Planck-Institute of colloids and interfaces, Potsdam, Germany.

8:45 AM MM4.3
Ferroelastic Domain Switching Observed by Time-resolved X-ray Diffraction. Hengameh Allaf Navirian, Atomic physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.

9:00 AM MM4.4
Inducing Coherent Spin Excitations in Metallic Multilayers: The Role of Thermal Transport. Vladimir A. Stoica¹, Lynn Endicott², Donald A. Walko³, Yuelin Li³, Eric C. Landahl⁴ and Roy Clarke^1,2; ¹Applied Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; ²Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; ³Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois; ⁴Physics and Astronomy, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois.

9:15 AM MM4.5
Tracking Photoswitching Dynamics of Bistable Spin-crossover Molecules in the Solid State by Time-resolved Optical and X-ray Diffraction. Eric Collet^1,2, Maciej Lorenc¹, Marina Servol¹, Marylise Buron¹ and Herve Cailleau¹; ¹Institut de Physique Rennes, University Rennes 1, Rennes, France; ²Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France.

9:30 AM MM4.6
Combined Nanosecond and Nanometer Scale Dynamics of Ferroelectric Domains to Map Nucleation Activation Energies. Nicholas Polomoff¹, Vincent Palumbo¹, James Bosse¹, Sungjun Lee^1,2 and Bryan D. Huey¹; ¹Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut; ²Division of Physical Metrology, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon, Korea, South.

9:45 AM BREAK

10:15 AM *MM4.7
Real-time Structural Dynamics of Polar Solids Studied by Femtosecond X-ray Diffraction. Thomas Elsaesser, Max-Born-Institute, Berlin, Germany.

10:45 AM MM4.8
Terahertz-induced Kerr-effect in Relaxor Ferroelectrics. Matthias C. Hoffmann^1,2, Ka-Lo Yeh¹, Harold Hwang¹, Nathaniel C. Brandt¹ and Keith A. Nelson¹; ¹Chemistry, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ²Max Planck Research Group for Structural Dynamics, Center for Free Electron Laser Science, Hamburg, Germany.

11:00 AM MM4.9
Ultrafast All-optical Switching and Laser Action in Rotaxane. Marta M. Mroz¹, Stefano Perissinotto^1,2, Tersilla Virgili¹, Marco Salerno², Giuseppe Sforazzini³, Harry L. Anderson³ and Guglielmo Lanzani^1,2; ¹Physics, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy; ²IIT, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy; ³Chemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

11:15 AM MM4.10
Ultrafast Tuning of Magnetization Precession and Magnetic Anisotropy in Thin Iron Films. Ettore Carpene¹, Eduardo Mancini¹, Daniela Dazzi¹, Claudia Dallera¹, Ezio Puppin² and Sandro De Silvestri¹; ¹Dipartimento di Fisica, CNR-INFM, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy; ²Dipartimento di Fisica, CNISM, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy.

11:30 AM MM4.11
Control of Ultrafast Magnetization via Inverse Faraday Effect: Study of Simplifications. Plucinski J. Kazimierz¹, Igor M. Syvorotka² and Wojciech Imiolek³; ¹Electronics, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland; ²R&D Institute for Materials, SRC `Carat', Lviv, Ukraine; ³Jan Dlugosz University, Czestochowa, Poland.

11:45 AM MM4.12
Transferred to MM6.11

SESSION MM5: Materials in Extreme Conditions
Chair: Bradley Siwick
Tuesday Afternoon, December 1, 2009
Room 201 (Hynes)
1:30 PM *MM5.1
The Generation of Transient Transparent Aluminum Alloys with Intense Femtosecond XUV Light. Justin S. Wark, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

2:00 PM MM5.2
Investigating Atomic Bonding and Electronic Structure of Warm Dense Matter using Time Resolved X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy. Byoung-ick Cho¹, Phillip A. Heimann¹, Jun Feng¹, Kyle Engelhorn¹, Christopher Weber², Hae Ja Lee² and Roger W. Falcone^1,3; ¹Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California; ²Physics, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California; ³Physics, University of Calfornia, Berkeley, Berkeley, California.

2:15 PM MM5.3
Short-pulse Laser Induced Transient Structure Formation and Ablation Studied with Time-resolved Coherent XUV-scattering. Klaus Sokolowski-Tinten¹, Anton Barty², Sebastien Boutet³, Uladzimir Shymanovich¹, Mike Bogan³, Stefano Marchesini⁸, Stefan Hau-Riege², Nikola Stojanovic⁵, Joern Bonse⁹, Raanan Tobey⁶, Henri Ehrke⁶, Andrea Cavalleri^4,6, Stefan Duesterer⁵, Matthias Frank², Sasa Bajt⁴, Joachim Schulz⁴, Marvin Seibert⁷, Janos Hajdu⁷, Rolf Treusch⁵ and Henry Chapman⁴; ¹University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany; ²Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California; ³Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California; ⁴Centre for Free-Electron Laser Science, Hamburg, Germany; ⁵HASYLAB, DESY, Hamburg, Germany; ⁶University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; ⁷Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; ⁸Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California; ⁹Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Berlin, Germany.

2:30 PM MM5.4
Time-Resolved X-Ray Diffraction Study of Laser-Induced Shock and Acoustic Waves in Single Crystalline Silicon. Klaus-Dieter Liss¹, Thierry d' Almeida², Maik Kaiser^3,4, Rainer Hock⁵, Andreas Magerl⁵ and Jean-Francois Eloy⁶; ¹The Bragg Institute, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Lucas Heights, New South Wales, Australia; ²Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; ³Swiss Light Source, Paul-Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland; ⁴Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Ultrarapide, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; ⁵Lehrstuhl für Kristrallographie und Strukturphysik, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany; ⁶European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France.

2:45 PM MM5.5
The Potential For Investigating Sub-Picosecond Atomic Displacement Cascade Dynamics Using The LCLS. Bennett C. Larson and Jon Tischler; Materials Science & Technology Division, ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:15 PM *MM5.6
``Making the Molecular Movie": From Warm Dense Matter to the Structure-Function Correlation in Biology. R.J. Dwayne Miller, Chemistry/Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

3:45 PM MM5.7
Studying Nanoscale Material Processes under Extreme Conditions with High Time Resolution Electron Microscopy. Thomas B. LaGrange¹, Geoffery H. Campbell¹, David S. Grummon², Nigel D. Browning^1,3, Bryan W. Reed¹ and Wayne E. King¹; ¹Physical and Life Sciences, Condensed Matter and Materials Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California; ²Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, Michigan; ³Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Davis, Davis, California.

4:00 PM *MM5.8
Atomic-Scale Simulations of Femtosecond Laser Ablation. George H. Gilmer^1,3, Alexander M. Rubenchik¹, Steven M. Yalisove² and Ben Torralva²; ¹lawrence livermore national laboratory, Livermore, California; ²Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; ³Mechanical Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado.

4:30 PM MM5.9
Collateral Damage Induced by a Femtosecond Laser Pulse on Single-Crystal Superalloy CMSX-4. Ben Torralva¹, S. Ma¹, M. Das¹, J. P. McDonald², S. M. Yalisove¹, T. M. Pollock¹ and K. Thornton¹; ¹Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; ²Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

4:45 PM MM5.10
Large-scale Molecular Dynamics Studies of the Solid-solid Phase Transformation Pathways and Kinetics in Shocked Fe and Cs. Timothy C. Germann, T-1, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico.

SESSION MM6: Poster Session
Tuesday Evening, December 1, 2009
8:00 PM
Exhibit Hall D (Hynes)

MM6.1
Silicide Film Formation in the Ta/Ti/Si System by RF Induction Heating. Joshua Pelleg¹, Shmuel Rosenberg² and Michael Sinder³; ¹Materials Engineering, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Negev, Israel; ²materials Engineering, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel; ³Materials Eng., Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Negev, Israel.

MM6.2
Process Coatings with Sol-gel as ``Glue. Yuhong Huang¹, Qiang Wei¹, Qifa Zhou², Kirk Shung² and Ichiro Nishimura³; ¹Chemat Technology Inc., Northridge, California; ²NIH Transducer Resource Center, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA, USA, Los Angeles, California; ³UCLA School of Dentistry, The Weintraub Center for Reconstructive Biotechnology and Division of Advanced Prosthodontics, Biomaterials and Hospital Dentistry, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Los Angeles, California.

MM6.3
The Role of Thermal and Electronic Forces in the Picosecond Acoustic Response of Femtosecond Laser-excited Solids. Uladzimir Shymanovich¹, Matthieu Nicoul^3,1, Stefan Kaehle¹, Wei Lu¹, Alexander Tarasevitch¹, Ping Zhou¹, Tobias Wietler², Michael Horn von Hoegen¹, Dietrich von der Linde¹ and Klaus Sokolowski-Tinten¹; ¹University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany; ²University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany; ³University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.

MM6.4
Abstract Withdrawn

MM6.5
Monte Carlo Modelisation of Photoexcited Carriers Relaxation including Auger Effect in Narrow Band Gap InGaAs. Eric Tea and Frederic Aniel; Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale, UMR 8622 CNRS, Université Paris Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France.

MM6.6
Minoritary Transport in Heavily Doped p-type InGaAs. Eric Tea and Frederic Aniel; Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale, UMR 8622 CNRS, Université Paris Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France.

MM6.7
Chemical Treatment Influence on the Glass Substrate to the Growth of V2O5/PANI Thin Film. Elidia M. Guerra, Mirela C. Santos and Rodrigo F. Bianchi; ICEB, UFOP, Ouro Preto, Brazil.

MM6.8
Synthesis of LNF Nano Particles for Fuel Cell Applications. Reza Bateni, Maryam Nasirpour and Olivera Kesler; Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

MM6.9
Multiple Femtosecond Laser Pulse Delamination of Thin Oxide Films. Kristen Tebo¹, Ryan D. Murphy², Michael D. Thouless^1,3, Joel P. McDonald⁴ and Steve M. Yalisove¹; ¹Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; ²Applied Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; ³Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; ⁴Sandia National Laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

MM6.10
Temporal and Spatial Evolution of Transient Electric Fields Induced by Ultrafast Pulsed Laser Irradiation of Graphite. Hyuk Park and Jian-Min Zuo; Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.

MM6.11
Fast Speed Camera Imaging and Synchrotron X-ray Studies of Dynamic Structuring from Nano-layered Clay Particles. Zbigniew J. Rozynek¹, Baoxiang Wang¹, Jon O. Fossum¹,  Rene Castberg² and Knut J. Maloy²; ¹Physics, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway; ²Physics, UiO, Oslo, Norway.

SESSION MM7: Laser Processing of Materials
Chair: David Reis
Wednesday Morning, December 2, 2009
Room 201 (Hynes)

8:00 AM MM7.1
Optical Hyperdoping: Using Lasers to Tailor the Optoelectronic Properties of Semiconductors.  Eric Mazur; Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachussets.

8:30 AM MM7.2
Anomalous Absorption of Multiple or Single Femtosecond Laser Pulse by Silica Thin Films. Kristen Tebo, Ben Torralva and Steve M. Yalisove; Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

8:45 AM MM7.3
Mass Migration Induced by Two-photon Absorption into a Polymer Containing Y-shape Azo-chromophores. Antonio Ambrosio¹, Pasqualino Maddalena¹, Andrea Camposeo², Marco Polo², Antonio Neves², Dario Pisignano², Antonio Carella³, Fabio Borbone³ and Antonio Roviello³; ¹CNR-INFM CRS-COHERENTIA and Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy; ²CNR-INFM National Nanotechnology Laboratory, Lecce, Italy; ³Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi Federico II, Napoli, Italy.

9:00 AM MM7.4
Formation of Elemental Distribution in Glass using Thermal Accumulation with Femtosecond Laser Irradiation. Masahiro Shimizu, Kiyotaka Miura, Naomi Yasuda, Masaaki Sakakura, Shingo Kanehira, Masayuki Nishi, Yasuhiko Shimotsuma and Kazuyuki Hirao; Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

9:15 AM MM7.5
Ultrafast Defect Manipulation with Optical Anisotropy in Fused Silica. Yasuhiko Shimotsuma¹, Masaaki Sakakura¹, Peter G. Kazansky², Kiyotaka Miura³ and Kazuyuki Hirao³; ¹Innovative Collaboration Center, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; ²Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; ³Department of Material Chemistry, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

9:30 AM MM7.6
Femtosecond Pulsed Laser Deposition of Metal and Metal Oxide Thin Films to Tune their Properties by Controlling their Particle Size and Surface Morphology. Makoto Murakami, Bing Liu, Zhendong Hu and Yong Che; IMRA America, Inc, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

9:45 AM MM7.7
Resonance Picosecond IR Laser Decomposition of Molecular Precursors and Formation of Superhard Coatings of ReB2, RuB2, WB4 and B4C by Confined Plume Chemical Deposition. Borislav L. Ivanov¹, Matthew S. Wellons² and Charles M. Lukehart²; ¹Physics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee; ²Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

10:00 AM MM7.8
Rapid Solid-Liquid Phase-Change Oscillations in Nanocrystalline Silicon Wires. Adam D. Cywar, Gokhan Bakan, Faruk Dirisaglik, Kadir Cil, Helena Silva and Ali Gokirmak; Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut.

10:15 AM MM7.9
Real Time Dynamics of Silver Diffusion from Nanoparticles Into, and Out of, Chalcogenide Glass Films Upon Optical Absorption. Vincent Palumbo¹, Atif Rakin¹, Jiri Cech², Himanshu Jain² and Bryan Huey¹; ¹Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut; ²Materials Science and Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

10:30 AM MM7.10
Ultrafast Laser Formation of Microstructures at a Metal-glass Interface. Ryan D. Murphy¹, Kristen N. Tebo² and Steven M. Yalisove²; ¹Applied Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; ²Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

10:45 AM MM7.11
Field Emission and Microstructural Changes of Laser Annealed Carbon Films. Maziar Shakerzadeh¹, Hang Tong E. Teo¹, Xincai Wang² and Beng Kang Tay¹; ¹Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore; ²Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech), Singapore, Singapore.

11:00 AM MM7.12
Laser Irradiation Induced Assembly and Surface Sintering of Metal Nanoparticles in Liquid. Zijie Yan¹, Cerasela Dinu¹, Ruqiang Bao¹, Anthony N. Caruso², Yong Huang³ and Douglas B. Chrisey¹; ¹Materials Science and Engineering Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; ²Department of Physics, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri; ³Department of Mechanical Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina.

11:15 AM MM7.13
(Ni, Pt) Si Morphological Study with Post-silicide Laser Annealing. Bin Yang¹, Abhilash Mayur², Shankar Muthukrishnan², Ben Ng², Yu Zhu³, Zhen Zhang³, Simon Gaudet⁴, Mark Raymond⁵, Jean Jordan-Sweet³ and Christian Lavoie^3,4; ¹GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Yorktown Heights, New York; ²Applied Materials Inc., Santa Clara, California; ³T.J. Watson Research Center, International Business Machine Corporation, Yorktown Heights, New York; ⁴Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada; ⁵GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Albany, New York.

11:30 AM MM7.14
Modification of Aluminium Surface Using Picosecond Laser for Printing Applications. Imtiyaz Ahmed Ansari¹, Ken Watkins¹, Geoff Dearden¹, Martin C. Sharp¹, Richard A. Hutchinson² and Rodney Potts³; ¹Department of Engineering, Laser Group, University of Liverpool, Birkenhead, Merseyside, United Kingdom; ²Research and Development, Derwent Technology, York, United Kingdom; ³Research and Development, J P Imaging Ltd., Birkenhead, Merseyside, United Kingdom.

11:45 AM MM7.15
Modification of Semiconductor to Metal Transition Characteristics of VO₂ Thin Films by Ion Irradiation. Alok Gupta¹, Ravi Aggarwal¹, Titas Dutta¹, Pranav Gupta¹, Jagdish Narayan¹ and Devesh K. Avasthi²; ¹Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina; ²Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi, New Delhi, India.

SESSION MM8: Electronic and Vibrational Dynamics
Chair: Aaron Lindenberg
Wednesday Afternoon, December 2, 2009
Room 201 (Hynes)
1:30 PM *MM8.1
THz Nonlinear Spectroscopy and Coherent Control of Collective Material Responses. Keith A. Nelson, Chemistry, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

2:00 PM MM8.2
Electron Dynamics in Bulk ZnO Measured by Time-Resolved Terahertz Spectroscopy. Jason B. Baxter¹ and Charles A. Schmuttenmaer²; ¹Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; ²Chemistry Dept., Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

2:15 PM MM8.3
Electron Transfer into and Mobility within TiO2 Nanoparticles and Nanotubes Characterized by Time Resolved Terahertz Spectroscopy. Christiaan Richter, Andrew Moir and Charles A. Schmuttenmaer; Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

2:30 PM MM8.4
Ultrafast Percolation Dynamics in Silicon Nanocrystal Films. Lyubov V. Titova¹, David G. Cooke^1,2, Tyler L. Cocker¹, Xiongyao Y. Wang¹, Cindy Blois¹, Al Meldrum¹ and Frank A. Hegmann¹; ¹Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; ²DTU Photonik, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.

2:45 PM MM8.5
Ultrafast Surface Plasmon Interferometry. Vasily Temnov¹, Keith Nelson¹, Gaspar Armelles², Alfonso Cebollada², Tim Thomay³, Rudolf Bratschitsch³ and Alfred Leitenstorfer³; ¹Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ²Instituto de Microelectrónica de Madrid (CSIC), Madrid, Spain; ³Department of Physics and Center for Applied Photonics, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:30 PM *MM8.6
Ultrafast Hybrid Plasmonics in Nanoscale Structures. Gary P. Wiederrecht and Jasmina Hranisavljevic; Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois.

4:00 PM MM8.7
Conductivity Dynamics in the Correlated Metallic State of V2O3. Mengkun Liu¹, Brian Pardo¹, M. M. Qazilbash², J. Zhang¹, S. J. Yun³, B. G. Chae³, B. J. Kim³, Dimitri N. Basov² and Richard D. Averitt¹; ¹Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts; ²Physics, UCSD, San Diego, California; ³IT Convergence and Components Laboratory, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea, South.

4:15 PM MM8.8
Nonequilibrium Quasiparticle Dynamics in the Iron pnictide Superconductors Studied by Pump-probe Spectroscopy. Darius H. Torchinsky¹, James McIver¹, Gen-Fu Chen², Jian-Lin Luo², Nan-Lin Wang² and Nuh Gedik¹; ¹Physics, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ²Physics, Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

4:30 PM MM8.9
Ultrafast Excitation Dynamics of Phonons and Quasiparticles in Superconducting YBa₂Cu₃O_7-δ. Alexej Pashkin¹, Michael Porer¹, Jakob Hees¹, Christian Bernhard², Xin Yao³, Yoram Dagan⁴, Jure Demsar^1,5, Rupert Huber¹ and Alfred Leitenstorfer¹; ¹Physics, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany; ²Physics Department, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland; ³Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China; ⁴Physics Department, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; ⁵Complex Matter Department, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

4:45 PM MM8.10
Vibrational Dynamics of the Hydrogen Storage Material LiBH₄ by Infrared Pump-Probe Spectroscopy. Robin Gremaud¹, Esben Ravn Andresen², Andreas Borgschulte¹, Timmy Ramirez-Cuesta³, Andreas Zuettel¹ and Peter Hamm²; ¹Hydrogen & Energy, Empa, Swiss federal laboratories for materials testing and research, Dübendorf, Switzerland; ²Physikalisch-Chemisches Institut, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland; ³ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom.