Abstract

AbstractFemtosecond time-resolved optical techniques have been shown to generate coherent phonons in some semimetals and narrow gap semiconductors. A previously-reported model describes the mechanism for generation of coherent lattice vibrations via the optically excited carriers. One of the most interesting consequences of such coherent lattice motion is the modulation of the electronic bands - and possibly of the transport properties of the material — at a THz timescale. Preliminary results are given for a band structure calculation, performed to evaluate the magnitude of these laser-induced band shifts.

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