Electron Dynamics Probed by Time-Resolved Hard X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Masaki Oura, Lars-Philip Oloff, Ashish Chainani, Kai Rossnagel, Masaharu Matsunami, Ritsuko Eguchi, Takayuki Kiss, Takashi Yamaguchi, Yasuhiro Nakatani, Jun Miyawaki, Kohei Yamagami, Munetaka Taguchi (+10 others)
2014 Transactions of the Materials Research Society of Japan  
We have realized element-specific pump-probe time-resolved hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (TR-HAXPES) for the study of ultrafast electron dynamics in condensed matter. TR-HAXPES has been applied for the first time to determine the temporal evolution of space-charge effects on Ti 1s core-level photoelectron spectra of SrTiO 3 at the SACLA X-ray free electron laser facility. We found that the temporal evolution of Ti 1s kinetic energy shifts can be well explained by a mean-field model for
more » ... he electron propagation in the vacuum. We also report preliminary results of a real-time laserassisted valence-transition in YbInCu 4 , observed by measuring Yb 3d 5/2 core-level HAXPES spectra at BL19LXU of SPring-8, under ON/OFF conditions of an optical pump-laser. We observed drastic changes in intensities of the Yb 2+ and Yb 3+ spectral components induced by pump-laser irradiation.
doi:10.14723/tmrsj.39.469 fatcat:kp5frv7kfnaipc3mec5s6jlbje