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Electron-phonon interaction (EPI) is presumably detrimental for thermoelectric performance in semiconductors because it limits carrier mobility. Here we show that enhanced EPI with strong energy dependence offers an intrinsic pathway to…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-06 Yi Xia , Junsoo Park , Vidvuds Ozoliņš , Chris Wolverton

Many crystalline solids possess strongly anharmonic soft phonon modes characterized by diminishing frequency as temperature approaches a critical point associated with a symmetry breaking phase transition. While electron-soft phonon…

We study the effect of population inversion associated with the electron and hole injection in graphene p-i-n structures at the room and slightly lower temperatures. It is assumed that the recombination and energy relaxation of electrons…

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The effects of confinement on electron transport in GaN have been studied via an ensemble Monte-Carlo code. Excellent agreement is obtained with experimental data from the literature up to moderate fields. In agreement with experimental…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-12 Lee Smith , Peter Brookes Chambers , Daniel R. Naylor , Angela Dyson

Being used in optoelectronic devices as ultra-thin conductor-insulator junctions, detailed investigations are needed about how exactly h-BN and graphene hybridize. Here, we present a comprehensive ab initio study of hot carrier dynamics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-01 Sangkha Borah , Dinesh Yadav , Maxim Trushin , Fabian Pauly

In this paper we investigate the electron-phonon contribution to the resistivity of suspended single layer graphene. In-plane as well as flexural phonons are addressed in different temperature regimes. We focus on the intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Eros Mariani , Felix von Oppen

The ability to control phonons in solids is key for diverse quantum applications, ranging from quantum information processing to sensing. Often, phonons are sources of noise and decoherence, since they can interact with a variety of…

We show that the electron-phonon coupling in graphene, in contrast with the non-relativistic two-dimensional electron gas, leads to shifts in the phonon frequencies that are non-trivial functions of the electronic density. These shifts can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 A. H. Castro Neto , Francisco Guinea

We investigated negative photoconductivity in graphene using ultrafast terahertz techniques. Infrared transmission was used to determine the Fermi energy, carrier density and mobility of p-type CVD graphene samples. Time-resolved terahertz…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-23 J. N. Heyman , J. D. Stein , Z. S. Kaminski , A. R. Banman , A. M. Massari , J. T. Robinson

A thorough understanding of the microscopic picture of heat conduction in solids is critical to a broad range of applications, from thermal management of microelectronics to more efficient thermoelectric materials. The transport properties…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-04 Yujie Quan , Shengying Yue , Bolin Liao

We study transport properties of clean suspended graphene at the Dirac point. In the absence of the electron-electron interaction, the main contribution to resistivity comes from interaction with flexural (out-of-plane deformation) phonons.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 I. V. Gornyi , V. Yu. Kachorovskii , A. D. Mirlin

Understanding the mechanisms of thermal conduction in graphene is a long-lasting research topic, due to its high thermal conductivity. Peierls-Boltzmann transport equation (PBTE) based studies have revealed many unique phonon transport…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-14 Xiaokun Gu , Zheyong Fan , Hua Bao , C. Y. Zhao

Graphene exhibits promise as a plasmonic material with high mode confinement that could enable efficient hot carrier extraction. We investigate the lifetimes and mean free paths of energetic carriers in free-standing graphene, graphite and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-28 Prineha Narang , Litao Zhao , Steven Claybrook , Ravishankar Sundararaman

The unusual electrical and optical properties of graphene make it a promising candidate for optoelectronic applications. An important, but as yet unexplored aspect is the role of photo-excited hot carriers in charge and energy transport at…

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We study the carrier dynamics in epitaxially grown graphene in the range of photon energies from 10 - 250 meV. The experiments complemented by microscopic modeling reveal that the carrier relaxation is significantly slowed down as the…

Graphene is a material with remarkable electronic properties and exceptional thermal transport properties near room temperature, which have been well examined and understood. However at very low temperatures the thermodynamic and thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-02 Kin Chung Fong , Keith Schwab

The design of graphene-based composite with high thermal conductivity requires a comprehensive understanding of phonon coupling in graphene. We extended the two-temperature model to coupled groups of phonon. The study give new physical…

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Electron-electron (e-e) interaction is known as a source of logarithmic renormalizations for Dirac fermions in quantum field theory. The renormalization of electron--optical phonon coupling (EPC) by e-e interaction, which plays a pivotal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-06 Sho Ikeda , Chiko Otani , Masatsugu Yamashita

We investigate the effect of electron- $\mathrm{A}_{1g}$ phonon coupling on the gapless electronic band dispersion of the pristine graphene. The electron-phonon interaction is introduced through a Kekul\'{e}-type distortion giving rise to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-29 B. S. Kandemir , A. Mogulkoc

At high phonon temperature, defect-mediated electron-phonon collisions (supercollisions) in graphene allow for larger energy transfer and faster cooling of hot electrons than the normal, momentum-conserving electron-phonon collisions.…