Andrey Akimov

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• workRoom C400a Physics
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work0115 846 7175
• andrey.akimov@nottingham.ac.uk

Research Summary

My present research concerns the studies of coherent high frequency (GHz and THz) acoustic waves in semiconductor and insulator nanostructures. There is a special interest in the periodic structures… read more

Selected Publications

• POYSER, C. L., YORK, W. B., SRIKANTHREDDY, D., GLAVIN, B. A., LINNIK, T. L., CAMPION, R. P., AKIMOV, A. V. and KENT, A. J., 2017. Phonon Spectroscopy with Chirped Shear and Compressive Acoustic Pulses PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. 119(25),
• CZERNIUK, T, WIGGER, D, AKIMOV, A. V., SCHNEIDER, C., KAMP, M., HOEFLING, S., YAKOVLEV, D. R., KUHN, T., REITER, D. E. and BAYER, M., 2017. Picosecond Control of Quantum Dot Laser Emission by Coherent Phonons Physical Review Letters. 118(13), 133901
• CZERNIUK, T., BRUEGGEMANN, C., TEPPER, J., BRODBECK, S., SCHNEIDER, C., KAMP, M., HOEFLING, S., GLAVIN, B. A., YAKOVLEV, D. R., AKIMOV, A. V. and BAYER, M., 2014. Lasing from active optomechanical resonators NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 5, 4038
• MARYAM, W., AKIMOV, A.V., CAMPION, R.P. and KENT, A.J., 2013. Dynamics of a vertical cavity quantum cascade phonon laser structure Nature Communications. 4(July), 2184

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Current Research

My present research concerns the studies of coherent high frequency (GHz and THz) acoustic waves in semiconductor and insulator nanostructures. There is a special interest in the periodic structures with nanometer period. Optical and acoustical phenomena in one-, two- and three-dimensional structures are studied experimentally by ultrafast optical techniques. Among the structures studied recently are superlattices, microcavities with Bragg reflectors and synthetic opals. As an expert in optical spectroscopy I apply the spectroscopic techniques to ultrafast acoustics using photoluminescence and reflectivity spectra for detection of ultrashort strain pulses and acoustic solitons in nanostructures. The main aim of my research is the experimental observation of new ultrafast acousto-optical phenomena in nanostructures and application of the revealed effects to acousto-optics and acousto-electronics.

• SRIKANTHREDDY, D., GLAVIN, B. A., POYSER, C. L., HENINI, M., LEHMANN, D., JASIUKIEWICZ, CZ., AKIMOV, A. V. and KENT, A. J., 2017. Piezoelectric Response to Coherent Longitudinal and Transverse Acoustic Phonons in a Semiconductor Schottky Diode PHYSICAL REVIEW APPLIED. 7(2),
• CZERNIUK, T, WIGGER, D, AKIMOV, A. V., SCHNEIDER, C., KAMP, M., HOEFLING, S., YAKOVLEV, D. R., KUHN, T., REITER, D. E. and BAYER, M., 2017. Picosecond Control of Quantum Dot Laser Emission by Coherent Phonons Physical Review Letters. 118(13), 133901
• CZERNIUK, T., SCHNEIDER, C., KAMP, M., HOEFLING, S., GLAVIN, B. A., YAKOVLEV, D. R., AKIMOV, A. V. and BAYER, M., 2017. Acousto-optical nanoscopy of buried photonic nanostructures OPTICA. 4(6), 588-594
• POYSER, C. L., YORK, W. B., SRIKANTHREDDY, D., GLAVIN, B. A., LINNIK, T. L., CAMPION, R. P., AKIMOV, A. V. and KENT, A. J., 2017. Phonon Spectroscopy with Chirped Shear and Compressive Acoustic Pulses PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. 119(25),
• BEARDSLEY, RYAN, AKIMOV, ANDREY V., GREENER, JAKE D. G., MUDD, GARRY W., SANDEEP, SATHYAN, KUDRYNSKYI, ZAKHAR R., KOVALYUK, ZAKHAR D., PATANE, AMALIA and KENT, ANTHONY J., 2016. Nanomechanical probing of the layer/substrate interface of an exfoliated InSe sheet on sapphire SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 6,
• POYSER, CAROLINE L., CZERNIUK, THOMAS, AKIMOV, ANDREY, DIROLL, BENJAMIN T., GAULDING, E. ASHLEY, SALASYUK, ALEXEY S., KENT, ANTHONY J., YAKOVLEV, DMITRI R., BAYER, MANFRED and MURRAY, CHRISTOPHER B., 2016. Coherent Acoustic Phonons in Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystal Superlattices ACS NANO. 10(1), 1163-1169
• KATS, V. N., LINNIK, T. L., SALASYUK, A. S., RUSHFORTH, A. W., WANG, M., WADLEY, P., AKIMOV, A. V., CAVILL, S. A., HOLY, V., KALASHNIKOVA, A. M. and SCHERBAKOV, A. V., 2016. Ultrafast changes of magnetic anisotropy driven by laser-generated coherent and noncoherent phonons in metallic films PHYSICAL REVIEW B. 93(21), 4422-4422
• KATS, VLADIMIR N., LINNIK, TATIANA L., SALASYUK, ALEXEY S., RUSHFORTH, ANDREW W., WANG, MU, WADLEY, PETER, AKIMOV, ANDREY V., CAVILL, STUART A., HOLY, VACLAV, KALASHNIKOVA, ALEXANDRA M. and SCHERBAKOV, ALEXEY V., 2016. Contributions from coherent and incoherent lattice excitations to ultrafast optical control of magnetic anisotropy of metallic films ULTRAFAST BANDGAP PHOTONICS. 9835,
• SARAH L HEYWOOD, BORIS A GLAVIN, RYAN P BEARDSLEY, ANDREY V AKIMOV, MICHAEL W CARR, JAMES NORMAN, PHILIP C NORTON, BRIAN PRIME, NIGEL PRIESTLEY and ANTHONY J KENT, 2016. Heterodyne mixing of millimetre electromagnetic waves and sub-THz sound in a semiconductor device Scientific Reports. 6, 30396
• POYSER, C. L., AKIMOV, A. V., BALANOV, A. G., CAMPION, R. P. and KENT, A. J., 2015. A weakly coupled semiconductor superlattice as a harmonic hypersonic-electrical transducer NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. 17,
• POYSER, CAROLINE L., AKIMOV, ANDREY V., CAMPION, RICHARD P. and KENT, ANTHONY J., 2015. Coherent phonon optics in a chip with an electrically controlled active device SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 5,
• JAEGER, J. V., SCHERBAKOV, A. V., GLAVIN, B. A., SALASYUK, A. S., CAMPION, R. P., RUSHFORTH, A. W., YAKOVLEV, D. R., AKIMOV, A. V. and BAYER, M., 2015. Resonant driving of magnetization precession in a ferromagnetic layer by coherent monochromatic phonons PHYSICAL REVIEW B. 92(2),
• CZERNIUK, T., TEPPER, J., AKIMOV, A. V., UNSLEBER, S., SCHNEIDER, C., KAMP, M., HOEFLING, S., YAKOVLEV, D. R. and BAYER, M., 2015. Impact of nanomechanical resonances on lasing from electrically pumped quantum dot micropillars APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS. 106(4), 041103
• YOUNG, E. S. K., BOURAVLEUV, A. D., CIRLIN, G. E., DHAKA, V., LIPSANEN, H., TCHERNYCHEVA, M., SCHERBAKOV, A. V., PLATONOV, A. V., AKIMOV, A. V. and KENT, A. J., 2014. Electrical detection of picosecond acoustic pulses in vertical transport devices with nanowires APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS. 104(6),
• CZERNIUK, T., BRUEGGEMANN, C., TEPPER, J., BRODBECK, S., SCHNEIDER, C., KAMP, M., HOEFLING, S., GLAVIN, B. A., YAKOVLEV, D. R., AKIMOV, A. V. and BAYER, M., 2014. Lasing from active optomechanical resonators NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 5, 4038
• MARYAM, W., AKIMOV, A.V., CAMPION, R.P. and KENT, A.J., 2013. Dynamics of a vertical cavity quantum cascade phonon laser structure Nature Communications. 4(July), 2184
• JAEGER, J. V., SCHERBAKOV, A. V., LINNIK, T. L., YAKOVLEV, D. R., WANG, M., WADLEY, P., HOLY, V., CAVILL, S. A., AKIMOV, A. V., RUSHFORTH, A. W. and BAYER, M., 2013. Picosecond inverse magnetostriction in galfenol thin films APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS. 103(3),
• FARMER, DAVID J., AKIMOV, ANDREY V., SHARP, JAMES S. and KENT, ANTHONY J., 2013. Quantized phonon modes in loaded polymer films JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS. 113(3),
• SCHERBAKOV, A. V., BOMBECK, M., JAGER, J. V., SALASYUK, A. S., LINNIK, T. L., GUSEV, V. E., YAKOVLEV, D. R., AKIMOV, A. V. and BAYER, M., 2013. Picosecond opto-acoustic interferometry and polarimetry in high-index GaAs OPTICS EXPRESS. 21(14), 16473-16485
• BOMBECK, M., JAEGER, J. V., SCHERBAKOV, A. V., LINNIK, T., YAKOVLEV, D. R., LIU, X., FURDYNA, J. K., AKIMOV, A. V. and BAYER, M., 2013. Magnetization precession induced by quasitransverse picosecond strain pulses in (311) ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn)As PHYSICAL REVIEW B. 87(6),
• MARYAM, W., AKIMOV, A. V., CAMPION, R. P. and KENT, A. J., 2013. Dynamics of a vertical cavity quantum cascade phonon laser structure NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 4,
• BRUGGEMANN, C., AKIMOV, A.V., SCHERBAKOV, A.V., BOMBECK, M., SCHNEIDER, C., HOFLING, S., FORCHEL, A., YAKOVLEV, D.R. and BAYER, M., 2012. Laser mode feeding by shaking quantum dots in a planar microcavity Nature Photonics. 6(1), 30-34
• YOUNG, E.S.K., AKIMOV, A.V., HENINI, M., EAVES, L. and KENT, A.J., 2012. Subterahertz acoustical pumping of electronic charge in a resonant tunneling device Physical Review Letters. 108(22), 226601
• BRUEGGEMANN, C., AKIMOV, A. V., GLAVIN, B. A., BELOTELOV, V. I., AKIMOV, I. A., JAEGER, J., KASTURE, S., GOPAL, A. V., VENGURLEKAR, A. S., YAKOVLEV, D. R., KENT, A. J. and BAYER, M., 2012. Modulation of a surface plasmon-polariton resonance by subterahertz diffracted coherent phonons PHYSICAL REVIEW B. 86(12),
• YOUNG, E. S. K., AKIMOV, A. V., CAMPION, R. P., KENT, A. J. and GUSEV, V., 2012. Picosecond strain pulses generated by a supersonically expanding electron-hole plasma in GaAs PHYSICAL REVIEW B. 86(15),
• BRUEGGEMANN, C., JAEGER, J., GLAVIN, B. A., BELOTELOV, V. I., AKIMOV, I. A., KASTURE, S., GOPAL, A. V., VENGURLEKAR, A. S., YAKOVLEV, D. R., AKIMOV, A. V. and BAYER, M., 2012. Studying periodic nanostructures by probing the in-sample optical far-field using coherent phonons APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS. 101(24),
• BERSTERMANN, T., BRUEGGEMANN, C., AKIMOV, A. V., BOMBECK, M., YAKOVLEV, D. R., GIPPIUS, N. A., SCHERBAKOV, A. V., SAGNES, I., BLOCH, J. and BAYER, M., 2012. Destruction and recurrence of excitons by acoustic shock waves on picosecond time scales PHYSICAL REVIEW B. 86(19),
• BOMBECK, M., SALASYUK, A. S., GLAVIN, B. A., SCHERBAKOV, A. V., BRUEGGEMANN, C., YAKOVLEV, D. R., SAPEGA, V. F., LIU, X., FURDYNA, J. K., AKIMOV, A. V. and BAYER, M., 2012. Excitation of spin waves in ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn)As layers by picosecond strain pulses PHYSICAL REVIEW B. 85(19),
• MOSS, D, AKIMOV, AV, CAMPION, RP, HENINI, M, FOXON, CT, EAVES, L and KENT, AJ, 2011. Picosecond Strain Pulses Probed By The Photocurrent In Semiconductor Devices With Quantum Wells Physical Review B. 83(24), -
• MOSS, DM, AKIMOV, AV, GLAVIN, BA, HENINI, M and KENT, AJ, 2011. Ultrafast Strain-Induced Current In A Gaas Schottky Diode Physical Review Letters. 106(6), -
• AKIMOV, AV, YOUNG, ESK, SHARP, JS, GUSEV, V and KENT, AJ, 2011. Coherent Hypersonic Closed-Pipe Organ Like Modes In Supported Polymer Films Applied Physics Letters. 99(2), -
• POWELL, REL, NOVIKOV, SV, LUCKERT, F, EDWARDS, PR, AKIMOV, AV, FOXON, CT, MARTIN, RW and KENT, AJ, 2011. Carrier Localization And Related Photoluminescence In Cubic Algan Epilayers Journal Of Applied Physics. 110(6), 063517
• AKIMOV, AV, SCHERBAKOV, AV, YAKOVLEV, DR, BAYER, M and KENT, A, 2011. Optical And Photocurrent Spectroscopy With Picosecond Strain Pulses Journal Of Luminescence. 131(3), 404-408
• BEARDSLEY, R, AKIMOV, AV, GLAVIN, BA, MARYAM, W, HENINI, M and KENT, AJ, 2010. Optical Detection Of Folded Mini-Zone-Edge Coherent Acoustic Modes In A Doped Gaas/Alas Superlattice Physical Review B. 82(4), -
• WALKER, PM, SHARP, JS, AKIMOV, AV and KENT, AJ, 2010. Coherent Elastic Waves In A One-Dimensional Polymer Hypersonic Crystal Applied Physics Letters. 97(7), -
• SCHERBAKOV, A.V., SALASYUK, A.S., AKIMOV, A.V., LIU, X., BOMBECK, M., BRÜGGEMANN, C., YAKOVLEV, D.R., SAPEGA, V.F., FURDYNA, J.K. and BAYER, M., 2010. Coherent magnetization precession in ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn)As induced by picosecond acoustic pulses Physical Review Letters. 105(11), 117204
• SALASYUK, A.S., SCHERBAKOV, A.V., YAKOVLEV, D.R., AKIMOV, A.V., KAPLYANSKII, A.A., KAPLAN, S.F., GRUDINKIN, S.A., NASHCHEKIN, A.V., PEVTSOV, A.B., GOLUBEV, V.G., BERSTERMANN, T., BRÜGGEMANN, C., BOMBECK, M. and BAYER, M., 2010. Filtering of elastic waves by opal-based hypersonic crystal Nano Letters. 10(4), 1319-1323
• BERSTERMANN, T., BRÜGGEMANN, C., BOMBECK, M., AKIMOV, A.V., YAKOVLEV, D.R., KRUSE, C., HOMMEL, D. and BAYER, M., 2010. Optical bandpass switching by modulating a microcavity using ultrafast acoustics Physical Review B. 81(8), 085316
• MOSS, D., AKIMOV, A.V., MAKAROVSKY, O., CAMPION, R.P., FOXON, C.T., EAVES, L. and KENT, A.J. AND GLAVIN, B.A., 2009. Ultrafast acoustical gating of the photocurrent in a p-i-n tunneling diode incorporating a quantum well Physical Review B: Condensed Matter. 80, 113306
• AKIMOV, A V, TANAKA, Y, PEVTSOV, A B, KAPLAN, S F, GOLUBEV, V G, TAMURA, S, YAKOVLEV, D R and BAYER, M, 2008. Hypersonic modulation of light in three-dimensional photonic and phononic band-gap materials. Physical Review Letters. 101(3), 033902
• SCHERBAKOV, A V, VAN CAPEL, P J S, AKIMOV, A V, DIJKHUIS, J I, YAKOVLEV, D R, BERSTERMANN, T and BAYER, M, 2007. Chirping of an optical transition by an ultrafast acoustic soliton train in a semiconductor quantum well. Physical Review Letters. 99(5), 057402
• AKIMOV, A.V., SCHERBAKOV, A.V., YAKOVLEV, D.R., FOXON, C.T. and BAYER, M., 2006. Ultrafast band-gap shift induced by a strain pulse in semiconductor heterostructures Physical Review Letters. VOL 97(NUMB 3), 037401/1-4