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Time dynamics of photoexcited electron-hole pairs is important for a number of technologies, in particular solar cells. We combined ultrafast pump-probe Raman scattering and photoemission to directly follow electron-hole excitations as well…

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Semiconductor superlattices have been extensively investigated for thermoelectric applications, to explore the effects of compositions, interface structures, and lattice strain environments on the reduction of thermal conductivity, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-29 Manoj Settipalli , Vitaly S Proshchenko , Sanghamitra Neogi

The calculated electron mobility for a graphene nanoribbon as a function of applied electric field has been found to have a large threshold field for entering a nonlinear transport regime. This field depends on the lattice temperature,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , O. Roslyak

Symmetry-breaking phase transitions analogous to superconductivity (SC), charge ordering (CO) etc. in metal-intercalated graphene are favorable resulting from modified electronic and phonon band structures. Strong carrier-lattice…

Electron--phonon (e--ph) coupling governs electrical resistivity, hot-carrier cooling, and critically, thermal transport in solids. Recent first-principles advances now predict e--ph limited thermal conductivity from d-band metals and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-21 Sina Kazemian , Giovanni Fanchini

Due to its ultra-thin nature, the study of graphene quantum optoelectronics, like gate-dependent graphene Raman properties, is obscured by interactions with substrates and surroundings. For instance, the use of doped silicon with a capping…

In this work, we present a comprehensive investigation of graphene's thermal conductivity using first-principles density functional perturbation theory calculations, with a focus on the phonon and lattice vibrational properties underlying…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-25 Archishman Gupta , Ankit Arora

Two-dimensional gallium nitride (2D-GaN) has great potential in power electronics and optoelectronics. Heat dissipation is a critical issue for these applications of 2D-GaN. Previous studies showed that higher-order phonon-phonon scattering…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-12 Jianshi Sun , Xiangjun Liu , Yucheng Xiong , Yuhang Yao , Xiaolong Yang , Cheng Shao , Shouhang Li

We analyze Cooper pairing instabilities in strongly driven electron-phonon systems. The light-induced non-equilibrium state of phonons results in a simultaneous increase of the superconducting coupling constant and the electron scattering.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-12-16 Michael Knap , Mehrtash Babadi , Gil Refael , Ivar Martin , Eugene Demler

We study intrinsic charge-carrier scattering mechanisms and determine their contribution to the transport properties of the two-dimensional ferromagnet Fe$_3$GeTe$_2$. We use state-of-the-art first-principles calculations combined with the…

We investigate decoherence of an electron in graphene caused by electron-flexural phonon interaction. We find out that flexural phonons can produce dephasing rate comparable to the electron-electron one. The problem appears to be quite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Konstantin S. Tikhonov , Wei L. Z. Zhao , Alexander M. Finkel'stein

In this work, we report on hot carrier diffusion in graphene across large enough length scales that the carriers are not thermalized across the crystal. The carriers are injected into graphene at one site and their thermal transport is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 A. W. Draelos , A. Silverman , B. Eniwaye , E. G. Arnault , C. T. Ke , M. T. Wei , I. Vlassiouk , I. V. Borzenets , F. Amet , G. Finkelstein

We present an ab-initio study of photocarrier dynamics in graphene due to electron-phonon (EP) interactions. Using the Boltzmann relaxation-time approximation with parameters determined from density functional theory (DFT) and a…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-17 Dinesh Yadav , Maxim Trushin , Fabian Pauly

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

Understanding the normal-metal state transport in twisted bilayer graphene near magic angle is of fundamental importance as it provides insights into the mechanisms responsible for the observed strongly correlated insulating and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Gargee Sharma , Indra Yudhistira , Nilotpal Chakraborty , Derek Y. H. Ho , Michael S. Fuhrer , Giovanni Vignale , Shaffique Adam

Evidence is accumulating for the crucial role of a solid's free electrons in the dynamics of solid-liquid interfaces. Liquids induce electronic polarization and drive electric currents as they flow; electronic excitations, in turn,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Xiaoqing Yu , Alessandro Principi , Klaas-Jan Tielrooij , Mischa Bonn , Nikita Kavokine

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

We consider an altermagnet subject to the electron attractive potential mediated by the dispersive phonons. While altermagnetism suppresses superconductivity, scattering of electrons on the Fermi surface by thermal phonons suppresses…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-31 Ivan Iorsh

Understanding disorder in graphene is essential for electronic applications; in contrast to conventional materials, the extraordinarily low electron-phonon scattering1, 2 in graphene implies that disorder3-7 dominates its resistivity even…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-14 Jun Yan , Michael S. Fuhrer

Superconductivity in flatband systems has attracted tremendous attention in condensed matter physics. Alternating twisted multilayer graphene presents a compelling multiband system, with a coexistence of Dirac bands and flat bands, for…