Nature Communications (May 2016)

Microscopic origins of the terahertz carrier relaxation and cooling dynamics in graphene

  • Momchil T. Mihnev,
  • Faris Kadi,
  • Charles J. Divin,
  • Torben Winzer,
  • Seunghyun Lee,
  • Che-Hung Liu,
  • Zhaohui Zhong,
  • Claire Berger,
  • Walt A. de Heer,
  • Ermin Malic,
  • Andreas Knorr,
  • Theodore B. Norris

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11617
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Design of high-speed graphene-based devices relies on understanding of its ultrafast carrier dynamics. Here, the authors combine time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy and microscopic modelling to unveil the interplay between the scattering mechanisms dominating the ultrafast relaxation pathways in graphene.