Abstract
We investigated the coherent acoustic and optical phonon dynamics in a Ge2Sb2Te5 phase change material by using pump-probe spectroscopy. Oscillating reflectivity changes with oscillation period and de-phasing time on a timescale of tens of picoseconds were observed and could be consistently explained by coherent acoustic phonon generation in the form of a strain pulse propagating into substrate. The temperature-dependent frequency shift of the coherent optical A1 phonon mode was due to a three-phonon anharmonic decay while its de-phasing was dominated by temperatureindependent phonon-vacancy scattering at low temperature. A laser-fluence-dependent A1 phonon mode softening and a dephasing rate increase were observed and attributed to the high density of electrons and the accompanying lattice distortion, as well as the increase in the lattice temperature.
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