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For many of the envisioned optoelectronic applications of graphene it is crucial to understand the sub-picosecond carrier dynamics immediately following photoexcitation, as well as the effect on the electrical conductivity - the…

Harnessing non-equilibrium hot carriers from plasmonic metal nanostructures constitutes a vibrant research field. It promises to enable control of activity and selectivity of photochemical reactions, especially for solar fuel generation.…

We show that a coherent picture of the dc conductivity of monolayer and bilayer graphene at finite electronic densities emerges upon considering that strong short-range potentials are the main source of scattering in these two systems. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-08 A. Ferreira , J. Viana Gomes , Johan Nilsson , Eduardo R. Mucciolo , N. M. R. Peres , A. H. Castro Neto

By using Boltzmann formalism, we show that carrier multiplication by impact ionization can take place at relatively low electric fields during electronic transport in graphene. Because of the absence of energy gap, this effect is not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Anuj Girdhar , Jean-Pierre Leburton

The experimental availability of ultra-high-mobility samples of graphene opens the possibility to realize and study experimentally the "hydrodynamic" regime of the electron liquid. In this regime the rate of electron-electron collisions is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Alessandro Principi , Giovanni Vignale

Two-dimensional (2D) materials represented by graphene stand out in future electrical industry and have been widely studied. As a commonly existing factor in electronic devices, the electric field has been extensively utilized to modulate…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 E Zhou , Donghai Wei , Jing Wu , Guangzhao Qin , Ming Hu

We investigate molecular adsorption doping by electron withdrawing NO2 and electron donating NH3 on epitaxial graphene grown on C-face SiC substrates. Amperometric measurements show conductance changes upon introduction of molecular…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-01-24 B. K. Daas , W. K. Nomani , K. M. Daniels , T. S. Sudarshan , Goutam Koley , M. V. S. Chandrashekhar

Graphene is a new material showing high promise in optoelectronics, photonics, and energy-harvesting applications. However, the underlying physical mechanism of optoelectronic response has not been established. Here, we report on the…

We find the exact solution of graphene s carriers under electromagnetic radiation. To obtain such solution, we combine Floquet theory with a trial solution. Then the energy spectrum is obtained without using any approximation. Using such…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-01-05 Gerardo G. Naumis , Francisco J. Lopez-Rodriguez

The ultrafast dynamics of excited carriers in graphene is closely linked to the Dirac spectrum and plays a central role for many electronic and optoelectronic applications. Harvesting energy from excited electron-hole pairs, for instance,…

Transport in photoactive graphene heterostructures, originating from the dynamics of photogenerated hot carriers, is governed by the processes of thermionic emission, electron-lattice thermal imbalance and cooling. These processes give rise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-15 J. F. Rodriguez-Nieva , M. S. Dresselhaus , L. S. Levitov

It is shown that in general electron gas heating inevitably results in the change of the carrier concentration in the conduction band. It is proved, that this change, as a rule, leads to the kinetic coefficient nonlinearity of the same…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. G. Gurevich , I. N. Volovichev

The relaxation phenomena of charge carriers in hopping system have been demonstrated and investigated theoretically. An analytical model describing the charge carrier relaxation is proposed based on the hopping transport theory. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-16 Nianduan Lu , Ling Li , Pengxiao Suna , Ming Liu

We determine the diffusion length of excess carriers in GaN by spatially resolved cathodoluminescence spectroscopy utilizing a single quantum well as carrier collector or carrier sink. Monochromatic intensity profiles across the quantum…

We investigate the nanoscale mechanisms determining lattice thermal conductivity (LTC) of pristine and W-doped MX$_2$-M$^\prime$X$^\prime_2$ transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers from first principles, using the exact solution of…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-29 Elliot Perviz , Antonio Cammarata

We investigate bilayer graphene transport in the presence of electron-hole puddles induced by long-range charged impurities in the environment. We explain the insulating behavior observed in the temperature dependent conductivity of low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-24 E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

The thermalization of hot carriers and phonons gives direct insight into the scattering processes that mediate electrical and thermal transport. Obtaining the scattering rates for both hot carriers and phonons currently requires multiple…

Using the Boltzmann transport equation (BTE), we study the evolution of nonequilibrium carrier distributions in simple ($sp$) metals, assumed to have been instantaneously excited by an ultrafast laser pulse with photon energy $h \nu$. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-17 D. M. Riffe , Richard B. Wilson

Inelastic phonon scattering in graphene field-effect transistors (FETs) is studied by numerically solving the Boltzmann transport equation in three dimensional real and phase spaces (x, kx, ky). A kink behavior due to ambipolar transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jyotsna Chauhan , Jing Guo

We investigate the effect of strain and isotopic disorder on thermal transport in suspended graphene by equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. We show that the thermal conductivity of unstrained graphene, calculated from the…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-08 Luiz Felipe C. Pereira , Davide Donadio