We report the observation of coherent lattice vibrations in mono- and few-layer WSe2 in the time domain, which were obtained by performing time-resolved transmission measurements. Upon the excitation of ultrashort pulses with the energy resonant to that of A excitons, coherent oscillations of the A1g optical phonon and longitudinal acoustic phonon at the M point of the Brillouin zone (LA(M)) were impulsively generated in monolayer WSe2. In multilayer WSe2 flakes, the interlayer breathing mode (B1) is found to be sensitive to the number of layers, demonstrating its usefulness in characterizing layered transition metal dichalcogenide materials. On the basis of temperature-dependent measurements, we find that the A1g optical phonon mode decays into two acoustic phonons through the anharmonic decay process.
We have fabricated K0.5Na0.5NbO3 (KNN) thin films on Pt substrates by a chemical solution deposition method and investigated the effect of K and Na excess (0–30 mol %) for KNN thin film. The KNN film with 20 mol % excess K and Na was an optimized KNN perovskite phase. From the Raman spectra, a change in the scattering mode was observed due to the chemical composition fluctuations of the excess K and Na. The peak of the (v
1 + v
5) internal vibrational mode in the NbO6 octahedra was split into two vibration modes which were shifted toward lower or higher wavenumbers depending on the K and Na cation deficiencies or redundancies.
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