Photoinduced surface plasmon control of ultrafast melting modes in Au nanorods

arXiv has published an article by Park et Al about their research leveraging “single-pulse time-resolved X-ray imaging of Au nanorods undergoing photoinduced melting to showcase control over the solid-to-liquid transition process through the use of localized surface plasmons.”

Their findings provide evidence of “photoinduced surface plasmon-mediated ultrafast control of matter, establishing a foundation for the customization of material kinetics using femtosecond laser fields”.

For the XFEL single-pulse data acquisition, rod-shaped Au nanoparticles were mounted on to Silson’s 100 nm silicon nitride membranes, which were manufactured in a custom-designed 35 x 35 membrane array of membranes that were 0.2 x 0.2 mm in size. The design “facilitated single-pulse diffraction experiments using a fixed-target sample delivery scheme”.

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