Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Direct observation of picosecond melting and disintegration of metallic nanoparticles

  • Yungok Ihm,
  • Do Hyung Cho,
  • Daeho Sung,
  • Daewoong Nam,
  • Chulho Jung,
  • Takahiro Sato,
  • Sangsoo Kim,
  • Jaehyun Park,
  • Sunam Kim,
  • Marcus Gallagher-Jones,
  • Yoonhee Kim,
  • Rui Xu,
  • Shigeki Owada,
  • Ji Hoon Shim,
  • Kensuke Tono,
  • Makina Yabashi,
  • Tetsuya Ishikawa,
  • Jianwei Miao,
  • Do Young Noh,
  • Changyong Song

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10328-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Laser-matter interaction has been intensively studied in equilibrium states, but irreversible processes in a highly nonequilibrium state at nanoscales remains elusive due to experimental challenges. Here, Ihm et al. image heterogeneous melting of gold nanoparticles with nanometer and picosecond resolution.