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Hot charge carriers in graphene exhibit fascinating physical phenomena, whose understanding has improved greatly over the past decade. They have distinctly different physical properties compared to, for example, hot carriers in conventional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Mathieu Massicotte , Giancarlo Soavi , Alessandro Principi , Klaas-Jan Tielrooij

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 consider the nonlinear terahertz response of n-doped monolayer graphene at room temperature using a microscopic theory of carrier dynamics. Our tight-binding model treats the carrier-field interaction in the length gauge, includes phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 L. G. Helt , M. M. Dignam

We theoretically investigate the ultrafast terahertz(THz) properties of monolayer graphene. The analytical formulations of the photon carrier, electric polarization and optical current are obtained by solving the Bloch-equations in present…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-23 Q. Jin , H. M. Dong , K. Han , X. F. Wang

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

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

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…

Long lifetimes of hot carriers can lead to qualitatively new types of responses in materials. The magnitude and time scales for these responses reflect the mechanisms governing energy flows. We examine the microscopics of two processes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-06 Justin C. W. Song , Leonid S. Levitov

Understanding the ultrafast dynamics of photoexcited charges in graphene is essential, as the microscopic mechanisms underlying these dynamics determine many of graphene's optical, optothermal, and optoelectronic properties. These are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Hai I. Wang , Xiaoyu Jia , Anand Nivedan , Mischa Bonn , Aron W. Cummings , Alessandro Principi , Klaas-Jan Tielrooij

Temporally and spectrally resolved dynamics of optically excited carriers in graphene has been intensively studied theoretically and experimentally, whereas carrier diffusion in space has attracted much less attention. Understanding the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-01 Roland Jago , Raül Perea-Causin , Samuel Brem , Ermin Malic

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

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,…

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

Understanding and controlling hot-carrier relaxation in graphene is crucial for advancing ultrafast optoelectronic and terahertz technologies. Here, we investigate carrier cooling dynamics in monolayer and bilayer graphene using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Sachin Sharm , Elliott Walker , Rachael Myers-Ward , Jenifer Hajzus , Yijing Liu , Paola Barbara , Ioannis Chatzakis

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

Direct and inverse Auger scattering are amongst the primary processes that mediate the thermalization of hot carriers in semiconductors. These two processes involve the annihilation or generation of an electron-hole pair by exchanging…

The dynamics of photo-generated electron-hole pairs in solids are dictated by many-body interactions such as electron-electron and electron-phonon scattering. Hence, understanding and controlling these scattering channels is crucial for…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-13 Isabella Gierz

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

Graphene is an ideal material to study fundamental Coulomb- and phonon-induced carrier scattering processes. Its remarkable gapless and linear band structure opens up new carrier relaxation channels. In particular, Auger scattering bridging…

We describe very fast electron dynamics for a graphene nanoribbon driven by a control electromagnetic field in the terahertz regime. The mobility as a function of bias possesses a large threshold value when entering a nonlinear transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , O. Roslyak
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