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REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
Volume 94, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0102855
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Diffusion, a ubiquitous transport phenomenon, can be experimentally tracked by point spreading. A spatiotemporal pump-probe microscopy technique is introduced here to study diffusion. By utilizing the temperature profile obtained through transient reflectivity, this technique allows for nanometer accuracy in probing the diffusion of long-lived excitations. It also enables the quantification of thermal transport without the need for material input parameters or strong heating.
Diffusion is one of the most ubiquitous transport phenomena in nature. Experimentally, it can be tracked by following point spreading in space and time. Here, we introduce a spatiotemporal pump-probe microscopy technique that exploits the residual spatial temperature profile obtained through the transient reflectivity when probe pulses arrive before pump pulses. This corresponds to an effective pump-probe time delay of 13 ns, determined by the repetition rate of our laser system (76 MHz). This pre-time-zero technique enables probing the diffusion of long-lived excitations created by previous pump pulses with nanometer accuracy and is particularly powerful for following in-plane heat diffusion in thin films. The particular advantage of this technique is that it enables quantifying thermal transport without requiring any material input parameters or strong heating. We demonstrate the direct determination of the thermal diffusivities of films with a thickness of around 15 nm, consisting of the layered materials MoSe2 (0.18 cm(2)/s), WSe2 (0.20 cm(2)/s), MoS2 (0.35 cm(2)/s), and WS2 (0.59 cm(2)/s). This technique paves the way for observing nanoscale thermal transport phenomena and tracking diffusion of a broad range of species. (C) 2023 Author(s). All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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