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Graphene has recently attracted a great deal of interest in both academia and industry because of its unique electronic and optical properties [1,2], as well as its chemical, thermal, and mechanical properties. The superb characteristics of…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-06-29 Mingsheng Xu , Daisuke Fujita , Keisuke Sagisaka , Eiichiro Watanabe , Nobutaka Hanagata

Graphene possesses a unique combination of physical properties including high carrier mobility and high current density it can sustain. In contrast to bulk metals, graphene does not completely screen the external electrostatic field. In…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 Alexander Khitun

Thin films are gaining ground in photonics and optoelectronics, promising improvements in their efficiency and functionality as well as decreased material usage as compared to bulk technologies. However, proliferation of thin films would…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-12 Pyry Kivisaari , Mikko Partanen , Toufik Sadi , Jani Oksanen

Most materials in available macroscopic quantities are polycrystalline. Graphene, a recently discovered two-dimensional form of carbon with strong potential for replacing silicon in future electronics, is no exception. There is growing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 Oleg V. Yazyev , Steven G. Louie

Bilayer graphene is a highly promising material for electronic and optoelectronic applications since it is supporting massive Dirac fermions with a tuneable band gap. However, no consistent picture of the gap's effect on the optical and…

Graphene possesses remarkable electronic, optical and mechanical properties that have taken the research of two-dimensional relativistic condensed matter systems to prolific levels. However, the understanding of how its nonlinear optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 David N. Carvalho , Andrea Marini , Fabio Biancalana

The diffusion of electron-hole pairs, which are excited in an intrinsic graphene by the ultrashort focused laser pulse in mid-IR or visible spectral region, is described for the cases of peak-like or spread over the passive region…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 F. T. Vasko , V. V. Mitin

In graphene, after the electric field is turned-on, the ballistic acceleration of charge carriers up to the monochromatic optic phonon energy generates a back-and-forth motion of the whole distribution function between the zero point energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-04 Samwel K. Sekwao , Jean. P. Leburton

We utilize an organic polymer buffer layer between graphene and conventional gate dielectrics in top-gated graphene transistors. Unlike other insulators, this dielectric stack does not significantly degrade carrier mobility, allowing for…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-17 Damon B. Farmer , Hsin-Ying Chiu , Yu-Ming Lin , Keith A. Jenkins , Fengnian Xia , Phaedon Avouris

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 transfer matrix method is presented for solving the scattering problem for the quasi one-dimensional massless Dirac equation applied to graphene in the presence of an arbitrary inhomogeneous electric and perpendicular magnetic field. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-17 Sameer Grover , Sankalpa Ghosh , Manish Sharma

Experimental realization of efficient graphene-based absorbers is a challenging task due to the low carrier mobility in processed graphene. In this paper, we circumvent this problem by placing uniform graphene sheets on metallic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 Xuchen Wang , Sergei A. Tretyakov

We reveal that optical saturation of the low-energy states takes place in graphene for arbitrarily weak electromagnetic fields. This effect originates from the diverging field-induced interband coupling at the Dirac point. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-02 Behrooz Semnani , Roland Jago , Safieddin Safavi-Naeini , Amir Hamed Majedi , Ermin Malic , Philippe Tassin

While the Dirac band structure of graphene has established it as a leading platform for ultrafast optoelectronics, its non-perturbative nonlinear response under intense excitation remains poorly understood. Here, we report ultrafast…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-27 Xiaolong Lv , Yu Zhang , Yuxuan Wei , Chuanshan Tian

In this work, high field carrier transport in two dimensional (2D) graphene is investigated. Analytical models are applied to estimate the saturation currents in graphene, based on the high scattering rate of optical phonon emission.…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-09-13 Tian Fang , Aniruddha Konar , Huili Xing , Debdeep Jena

We investigate the absorption properties of graphene-based anisotropic metamaterial structures where the metamaterial layer possesses an electromagnetic response corresponding to a near-zero permittivity. We find that through analytical and…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-25 Jacob Linder , Klaus Halterman

We investigated ultrafast carrier dynamics in graphene with near-infrared transient absorption measurement after intense half-cycle terahertz pulse excitation. The terahertz electric field efficiently drives the carriers, inducing large…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-08 Shuntaro Tani , François Blanchard , Koichiro Tanaka

The ultrafast relaxation and recombination dynamics of photogenerated electrons and holes in epitaxial graphene are studied using optical-pump Terahertz-probe spectroscopy. The conductivity in graphene at Terahertz frequencies depends on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Paul A. George , Jared Strait , Jahan Dawlaty , Shriram Shivaraman , Mvs Chandrashekhar , Farhan Rana , Michael G. Spencer

Optical pump-terahertz probe spectroscopy has been used to investigate ultrafast photo-induced charge carrier transport in 3.4 $\mu$m wide graphene ribbons upon scaling the optical pump intensity. For low pump fluences, the deposited pump…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-02 Arvind Singh , Hynek Němec , Jan Kunc , Petr Kužel

Using a scanning electron microscope, we observed a reproducible, discrete distribution of secondary electron intensity stemming from an atomically thick graphene film on a thick insulating substrate. The discrete distribution made it…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-29 Hidefumi Hiura , Hisao Miyazaki , Kazuhito Tsukagoshi