Imaging grain microstructure in a model ceramic energy material with optically generated coherent acoustic phonons

Optically generated acoustic phonons have enabled depth resolved microstructure characterization. Here, the authors extend this method to obtain information on the orientation of individual crystallites by studying influence of probe beam polarization on detected signal amplitude.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yuzhou Wang, David H. Hurley, Zilong Hua, Thomas Pezeril, Samuel Raetz, Vitalyi E. Gusev, Vincent Tournat, Marat Khafizov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15360-3