Session Th34 – Special Session — Picosecond Laser Ultrasonics I
Date/Time Thursday, 2 May 2013 / 13:00 – 15:20
Venue Waterfront 1
Chair Oliver WRIGHT, Hokkaido University

Th34.1       13:00 – 13:30       P0216 – Invited Paper
Structural Phase Transitions and Terahertz Collective Excitations in Ni-Mn-Ga-(Co) Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys Probed by Ultrafast Acoustic Spectroscopy
Thomas DEKORSY
University of Konstanz

Th34.2       13:30 – 14:00       P0178 – Invited Paper
Impulsively Excited Pseudosurface Acoustic Waves in Hypersonic Phononic Crystals
Damiano NARDI, *Marco TRAVAGLIATI, **Mark SIEMENS, Qing LI, Margaret MURNANE, Henry KAPTEYN, ***Gabriele FERRINI
University of Colorado Boulder
*NEST, Scuola Normale Superiore and Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR and Center for Nanotechnology Innovation @ NEST, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
**University of Denver
***Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Th34.3       14:00 – 14:20       P0252
Attenuation Measurement in Oxide Thin Films on Silicon by Wavelength-tunable Picosecond ultrasonics with Synchronized Light Sources
Hirotsugu OGI, Kei MORITA and Masahiko HIRAO
Osaka University

Th34.4       14:20 – 14:40       P0311
Acousto-optic Resonance in Ultra-thin Silicon Membranes
Solène BOSSUT, Arnaud DEVOS, *Andrey SHCHEPETOV and *Mika PRUNNILA
IEMN UMR 8520 CNRS
*VTT

Th34.5       14:40 – 15:00       P0322
Ultrasensitive EUV-probed Photoacoustics for Characterizing Nanometer-thickness Films
Kathleen HOOGEBOOM-POT, Damiano NARDI, Emrah TURGUT, Jorge HERNANDEZ-CHARPAK,
Chan LA-O-VORAKIAT, Margaret MURNANE, Henry KAPTEYN and *Justin SHAW
University of Colorado Boulder
*NIST Boulder

Th34.6       15:00 – 15:20       P0319
Coherent Control of GHz Resonant Acoustic Modes by means of an Integrated Acoustic Etalon
Huarui SUN, Vladimir STOICA, Max SHTEIN, Roy CLARKE and Kevin PIPE
University of Michigan