Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 222, 1277-1285 (2013)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2013-01922-0

Regular Article

Impact of laser on bismuth thin-films

A 10 ps time-resolved study at the CRISTAL diffraction beamline (SOLEIL synchrotron)

¹ Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
² Synchrotron SOLEIL, L'Orme des merisiers Saint Aubin, BP. 48, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
³ Institut de Physique de Rennes, UMR 6251 UR1-CNRS, Bât. 11A Campus de Beaulieu, University Rennes 1, Rennes, France
⁴ Max Planck Research Department for Structural Dynamics at the Center for Free Electron Laser Science, University of Hamburg c/o DESY, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany

^a e-mail: laulhe@synchrotron-soleil.fr

Received: 18 March 2013
Revised: 12 May 2013
Published online: 15 July 2013

Abstract

We used the newly developed low-α mode of SOLEIL synchrotron to observe optically induced strain waves in 200 nm bismuth thin-films.