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Graphene has recently been shown to be permeable to thermal protons, the nuclei of hydrogen atoms, which sparked interest in its use as a proton-conducting membrane in relevant technologies. However, the influence of light on proton…

When light is absorbed by a semiconductor, photoexcited charge carriers enhance the absorption of far-infrared radiation due to intraband transitions. We observe the opposite behavior in monolayer graphene, a zero-gap semiconductor with…

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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

Graphene is promising for nanoscale, efficient, ultra-fast photo- and opto-electronic devices because of its remarkable electrical and optical properties, such as fast electron relaxation and heat dissipation. Here, we realize…

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Interface interactions in 2D vertically stacked heterostructures play an important role in optoe-lectronic applications, photodetectors based on graphene/InSe heterostructures had shown promising performance nowadays. However, nonlinear…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-12 Jialin Li , Lizhen Wang , Yuzhong Chen , Yujie Li , Haiming Zhu , Linjun Li , Limin Tong1

Understanding the dynamics of photoexcited carriers is essential for advancing photoelectronic device design. Photon absorption generates electron-hole pairs, and subsequent scatterings can induce ultrafast thermalization within a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-14 Zhuoqun Wen , Haiyu Zhu , Wenhao Liu , Zhi Wang , Wen Xiong , Xingzhan Wei

Graphene's high mobility and Fermi velocity, combined with its constant light absorption in the visible to far-infrared range, make it an ideal material to fabricate high-speed and ultra-broadband photodetectors. However, the precise…

The unique optoelectronic properties of graphene [1] make it an ideal platform for a variety of photonic applications [2], including fast photodetectors [3], transparent electrodes [4], optical modulators [5], and ultra-fast lasers [6].…

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We demonstrate the detection of cyclotron resonance in graphene by using a photo-induced thermionic emission mechanism at the graphene/MoS2 van der Waals (vdW) Schottky junction. At cyclotron resonance in Landau-quantized graphene, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-01 Yusai Wakafuji , Rai Moriya , Sabin Park , Kei Kinoshita , Satoru Masubuchi , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Tomoki Machida

Van der Waals heterostuctures, made from stacks of two-dimensional materials, exhibit unique light-matter interactions and are promising for novel optoelectronic devices. The performance of such devices is governed by near-field coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-23 Guillaume Froehlicher , Etienne Lorchat , Stéphane Berciaud

Due to its exceptional electronic and thermal properties, graphene is a key material for bolometry, calorimetry, and photon detection. However, despite graphene's relatively simple electronic structure, the physical processes responsible…

Graphene is a promising material for nonlinear THz applications owing to its high third-order susceptibility and tunable optical properties. Its strong nonlinear response, driven by free-carrier thermodynamics, facilitates efficient…

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…

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The photoresponse of graphene has recently received considerable attention. The main mechanisms yielding a finite dc response to an oscillating radiation field which have been investigated include responses of photovoltaic,…

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2D ferroelectric \{beta}-InSe/graphene heterostructure was fabricated by mechanical exfoliation, and the carrier dynamics crossing the heterostructure interface has been systematically investigated by Raman, photoluminescence and transient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Jialin Li , Yuzhong Chen , Yujie Li , Haiming Zhu , Linjun Li

We report on room temperature THz detection by means of antenna-coupled field effect transistors fabricated by using epitaxial graphene grown on silicon carbide substrate. Two independent detection mechanisms are found: plasma wave…

Tungsten diselenide (WSe2), a semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC), shows great potential as active material in optoelectronic devices due to its ambipolarity and direct bandgap in its single-layer form. Recently, different…

Dynamic wavelength tunability has long been the holy grail of photodetector technology. Because of its atomic thickness and unique properties, graphene opens up new paradigms to realize this concept, but so far this has been elusive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 François Léonard , Catalin D. Spataru , Michael Goldflam , David W. Peters , Thomas E. Beechem

A critical challenge for the integration of the optoelectronics is that photodetectors have relatively poor sensitivities at the nanometer scale. It is generally believed that a large electrodes spacing in photodetectors is required to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 Yufei Cao , Kaiming Cai , Pingan Hu , Lixia Zhao , Tengfei Yan , Xinhui Zhang , Xiaoguang Wu , Kaiyou Wang , Houzhi Zheng