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SCIENCE
Volume 321, Issue 5896, Pages 1660-1664Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1162049
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- Air Force Office of Scientific Research in the Gordon and Betty Moore Center at Caltech
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The confined electronic structure of nanoscale materials has increasingly been shown to induce behavior quite distinct from that of bulk analogs. Direct atomic- scale visualization of nanowires of zinc oxide was achieved through their unique pancake- type diffraction by using four- dimensional (4D) ultrafast electron crystallography. After electronic excitation of this wide- gap photonic material, the wires were found to exhibit colossal expansions, two orders of magnitude higher than that expected at thermal equilibrium; the expansion is highly anisotropic, a quasi- one- dimensional behavior, and is facilitated by the induced antibonding character. By reducing the density of nanowires, the expansions reach even larger values and occur at shorter times, suggesting a decrease of the structural constraint in transient atomic motions. This unanticipated ultrafast carrier- driven expansion highlights the optoelectronic consequences of nanoscale morphologies.
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