Date of Award
January 2015
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (MSME)
Department
Mechanical Engineering
First Advisor
Xianfan Xu
Committee Member 1
Xiulin Ruan
Committee Member 2
Timothy S. Fisher
Abstract
The pump-probe technique is an ultrafast spectroscopy method of detecting the dynamics of energy carriers such as electrons, phonons, and holes with transient thermal reflectance measurement. A laser beam is divided into a pump beam and probe beam with different wavelength or polarization and time delay. According to the transient reflectance result, this method could be applied to investigate the interaction between electron-phonon and electron-electron coupling with a high temporal resolution on the order of 10 femtoseconds.
Recommended Citation
Yao, Qiaomu, "ULTRAFAST ELECTRON-PHONON COUPLING AT THE METAL-DIELECTRIC INTERFACE" (2015). Open Access Theses. 1087.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_theses/1087