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Tuning interactions between Dirac states in graphene has attracted enormous interest because it can modify the electronic spectrum of the two-dimensional material, enhance electron correlations, and give rise to novel condensed-matter…

Energy relaxation of hot Dirac fermions in bilayer epitaxial graphene is experimentally investigated by magnetotransport measurements on Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations and weak localization. The hot-electron energy loss rate is found to…

Three dimensional (3D) Dirac semimetals which can be seen as 3D analogues of graphene have attracted enormous interests in research recently. In order to apply these ultrahigh-mobility materials in future electronic/optoelectronic devices,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-19 Wei Lu , Shaofeng Ge , Xuefeng Liu , Hong Lu , Caizhen Li , Jiawei Lai , Chuan Zhao , Zhimin Liao , Shuang Jia , Dong Sun

Magneto-transmission of a thin layer of bulk graphite is compared with spectra taken on multilayer epitaxial graphene prepared by thermal decomposition of a SiC crystal. We focus on the spectral features evolving as \sqrt{B}, which are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 M. Orlita , C. Faugeras , G. Martinez , D. K. Maude , J. M. Schneider , M. Sprinkle , C. Berger , W. A. de Heer , M. Potemski

The cooling of hot electrons in graphene is the critical process underlying the operation of exciting new graphene-based optoelectronic and plasmonic devices, but the nature of this cooling is controversial. We extract the hot electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Matt W. Graham , Su-Fei Shi , Daniel C. Ralph , Jiwoong Park , Paul L. McEuen

The equilibrium optical phonons of graphene are well characterized in terms of anharmonicity and electron-phonon interactions, however their non-equilibrium properties in the presence of hot charge carriers are still not fully explored.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-15 C. Ferrante , A. Virga , L. Benfatto , M. Martinati , D. De Fazio , U. Sassi , C. Fasolato , A. K. Ott , P. Postorino , D. Yoon , G. Cerullo , F. Mauri , A. C. Ferrari , T. Scopigno

Electrons in isolated graphene layers are a two-dimensional gas of massless Dirac Fermions. In realistic devices, however, the electronic properties are modified by elastic deformations, interlayer coupling and substrate interaction. Here…

We study the energy and temperature relaxation of electrons in graphene on a piezoelectric substrate. Scattering from the combined potential of extrinsic piezoelectric surface acoustical (PA) phonons of the substrate and intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-14 S. H. Zhang , W. Xu , F. M. Peeters , S. M. Badalyan

We have investigated the absorption spectrum of multilayer graphene in high magnetic fields. The low energy part of the spectrum of electrons in graphene is well described by the relativistic Dirac equation with a linear dispersion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Plochocka , C. Faugeras , M. Orlita , M. L. Sadowski , G. Martinez , M. Potemski , M. O. Goerbig , J. -N. Fuchs , C. Berger , W. A. de Heer

Hot electron effects in graphene are significant because of graphene's small electronic heat capacity and weak electron-phonon coupling, yet the dynamics and cooling mechanisms of hot electrons in graphene are not completely understood. We…

A remarkable manifestation of the quantum character of electrons in matter is offered by graphene, a single atomic layer of graphite. Unlike conventional solids where electrons are described with the Schrodinger equation, electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-16 Z. Q. Li , E. A. Henriksen , Z. Jiang , Z. Hao , M. C. Martin , P. Kim , H. L. Stormer , D. N. Basov

Motivated by a number of recent experimental studies, we have carried out the microscopic calculation of the quasiparticle self-energy and spectral function in a doped graphene when a symmetry breaking of the sublattices is occurred. Our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Alireza Qaiumzadeh , Reza Asgari

Ultrafast electron-phonon relaxation dynamics in graphene hides many distinct phenomena, such as hot phonon generation, dynamical Kohn anomalies, and phonon decoupling, yet still remains largely unexplored. Here, we unravel intricate…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-19 Nina Girotto , Dino Novko

Epitaxial graphene, grown on SiC(0001) surface, has been widely studied both experimentally and theoretically. It was found that first epitaxial graphene layer in such structures is a buffer layer i.e. there are no characteristic Dirac…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-13 Jakub Soltys , Jacek Piechota , Michal Lopuszynski , Stanislaw Krukowski

We present a detailed theoretical study of the ultrafast quasiparticle relaxation dynamics observed in normal metals and heavy fermion materials with femtosecond time-resolved optical pump-probe spectroscopy. For normal metals, a nonthermal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 K. H. Ahn , M. J. Graf , S. A. Trugman , J. Demsar , R. D. Averitt , J. L. Sarrao , A. J. Taylor

Hot carriers in a doped graphene under dc electric field is described taking into account the intraband energy relaxation due to acoustic phonon scattering and the interband generation-recombination transitions caused by thermal radiation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-04 Oleg G. Balev , Fedir T. Vasko

Graphene is emerging as a viable alternative to conventional optoelectronic, plasmonic, and nanophotonic materials. The interaction of light with carriers creates an out-of-equilibrium distribution, which relaxes on an ultrafast timescale…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-25 D. Brida , A. Tomadin , C. Manzoni , Y. J. Kim , A. Lombardo , S. Milana , R. R. Nair , K. S. Novoselov , A. C. Ferrari , G. Cerullo , M. Polini

We study the broadband optical conductivity and ultrafast carrier dynamics of epitaxial graphene in the few-layer limit. Equilibrium spectra of nominally buffer, monolayer, and multilayer graphene exhibit significant terahertz and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-05-02 H. Choi , F. Borondics , D. A. Siegel , S. Y. Zhou , M. C. Martin , A. Lanzara , R. A. Kaindl

The low energy physics of both graphene and surface states of three-dimensional topological insulators is described by gapless Dirac fermions with linear dispersion. In this work, we predict the emergence of a "heavy" Dirac fermion in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-17 Wendong Cao , Rui-Xing Zhang , Peizhe Tang , Gang Yang , Jorge Sofo , Wenhui Duan , Chao-Xing Liu

Layers of twisted bilayer graphene exhibit varieties of exotic quantum phenomena1-5. Today, the twist angle {\Theta} has become an important degree of freedom for exploring novel states of matters, i.e. two-dimensional superconductivity (…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-25 T. Suzuki , T. Iimori , S. J. Ahn , Y. Zhao , M. Watanabe , J. Xu , M. Fujisawa , T. Kanai , N. Ishii , J. Itatani , K. Suwa , H. Fukidome , S. Tanaka , J. R. Ahn , K. Okazaki , S. Shin , F. Komori , I. Matsuda