Picosecond ultrasonic experiments with water and its application to the measurement of nanostructures

Yang, Fan; Grimsley, T J; Che, Shan; Antonelli, G. A.; Maris, Humphrey J.; Nurmikko, A. V.

doi:10.1063/1.3388283

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“…23,25,92,98 . We cite here just some of the measurements of sound absorption in glasses 25 , solids 92 , polymers 105 , glass-forming liquids 106 , liquids 98,107 , and biological cells 49,79 . It is important to note that the experimental results presented in Ref.…”

Section: E Subcellular Imaging Inside Plant and Animal Cellsmentioning

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Advances in applications of time-domain Brillouin scattering for nanoscale imaging

Gusev

Ruello

2018

Applied Physics Reviews

105

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Time-domain Brillouin scattering is an all-optical experimental technique based on ultrafast lasers applied for generation and detection of coherent acoustic pulses on time durations of picoseconds and length scales of nanometers. In transparent materials scattering of the probe laser beam by the coherent phonons permits imaging of sample inhomogeneity. The transient optical reflectivity of the sample recorded by the probe beam as the acoustic nanopulse propagates in space contains information on the acoustical, optical, and acousto-optical parameters of the material under study. The experimental method is based on a heterodyning where weak light pulses scattered by the coherent acoustic phonons interfere at the photodetector with probe light pulses of significantly higher amplitude reflected from various interfaces of the sample. The time-domain Brillouin scattering imaging is based on Brillouin scattering and has the potential to provide all the information that researchers in material science, physics, chemistry, biology etc., get with classic frequency-domain Brillouin scattering of light. It can be viewed as a replacement for Brillouin scattering and Brillouin microscopy in all investigations where nanoscale spatial resolution is either required or advantageous. Here we review applications of time-domain Brillouin scattering for imaging of nanoporous films, ion-implanted semiconductors and dielectrics, texture in polycrystalline materials and inside vegetable and animal cells, and for monitoring the transformation of 2nanosound caused by nonlinearity and focusing. We also discuss the perspectives and the challenges for the future.I.

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Section: E Subcellular Imaging Inside Plant and Animal Cellsmentioning

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Advances in applications of time-domain Brillouin scattering for nanoscale imaging

Gusev

Ruello

2018

Applied Physics Reviews

105

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“…Moreover, PU takes advantages of the controlled emission of acoustic waves to amplify the light scattering, hence allowing the study of smaller volumes. Bridging acoustic microscopy and PU, an acoustic lens with a high numerical aperture 23 combined with a Fabry-Perot cavity 24 has been recently developed to create a new type of acoustic microscope offering a 100 nm lateral resolution at room temperature.…”

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All-optical broadband ultrasonography of single cells

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Cell mechanics play a key role in several fundamental biological processes, such as migration, proliferation, differentiation and tissue morphogenesis. In addition, many diseased conditions of the cell are correlated with altered cell mechanics, as in the case of cancer progression. For this there is much interest in methods that can map mechanical properties with a sub-cell resolution. Here, we demonstrate an inverted pulsed opto-acoustic microscope (iPOM) that operates in the 10 to 100 GHz range. These frequencies allow mapping quantitatively cell structures as thin as 10 nm and resolving the fibrillar details of cells. Using this non-invasive all-optical system, we produce high-resolution images based on mechanical properties as the contrast mechanisms, and we can observe the stiffness and adhesion of single migrating stem cells. The technique should allow transferring the diagnostic and imaging abilities of ultrasonic imaging to the single-cell scale, thus opening new avenues for cell biology and biomaterial sciences.

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“…The thermoreflectance technique was first developed in the 1970s and 1980s, where continuous wave (CW) light sources were used for the heating and sensing. 49,50 With the advancement of pico-and femtosecond pulsed laser in the 1980s, this technique was widely used for studying non-equilibrium electron-phonon interaction, [51][52][53][54][55][56] coherent phonon transport, 27,[57][58][59][60][61] picosecond acoustics, [62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72] optical properties, [73][74][75] thermal expansion coefficient 76 and thermal transport properties of thin films 77,78 and interfaces. 40,41,43,44,46,47,[79][80][81][82][83][84][85] Among these, Paddock and Eesley 77 were the first to measure thermal diffusivity of metal films using picosecond transient thermoreflectance, and Humphrey Maris' group have done a series of original res...…”

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Tutorial: Time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR) for thermal property characterization of bulk and thin film materials

Jiang

Qian

Yang

2018

Journal of Applied Physics

277

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Measuring thermal properties of materials is not only of fundamental importance in understanding the transport processes of energy carriers (electrons and phonons in solids) but also of practical interest in developing novel materials with desired thermal properties for applications in energy conversion and storage, electronics, and photonic systems. Over the past two decades, ultrafast laser-based time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR) has emerged and evolved as a reliable, powerful, and versatile technique to measure the thermal properties of a wide range of bulk and thin film materials and their interfaces. This tutorial discusses the basics as well as the recent advances of the TDTR technique and its applications in the thermal characterization of a variety of materials. The tutorial begins with the fundamentals of the TDTR technique, serving as a guideline for understanding the basic principles of this technique. Several variations of the TDTR technique that function similarly as the standard TDTR but with their own unique features are introduced, followed by introducing different advanced TDTR configurations that were developed to meet different measurement conditions. This tutorial closes with a summary that discusses the current limitations and proposes some directions for future development.

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Picosecond ultrasonic experiments with water and its application to the measurement of nanostructures

Cited by 25 publications

References 16 publications

Advances in applications of time-domain Brillouin scattering for nanoscale imaging

Advances in applications of time-domain Brillouin scattering for nanoscale imaging

All-optical broadband ultrasonography of single cells

Tutorial: Time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR) for thermal property characterization of bulk and thin film materials

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