Study of confined coherent acoustic phonon modes in a free-standing cubic GaN membrane by femtosecond spectroscopy
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GaN membrane by femtosecond spectroscopy Chuan He, Martin Grossmann, Delia Brick, Martin Schubert, Sergei V. Novikov, C. Thomas Foxon, Vitalyi Gusev, Anthony J. Kent, and Thomas Dekorsy Department of Physics, University of Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom Laboratoire d’Acoustique, LAUM, UMR CNRS 6613, LUNAM Universit e, Universit e du Maine, Le Mans, France
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