Related papers: Non-equilibrium electron relaxation in Graphene
We proposed in an earlier paper [arXiv:1108.6141] an empirical formula of the electrical conductivity which agrees with experiments within 20 percent for the most of pure elemental metals at room temperature ranges. This is obtained, in…
We study graphene in an external magnetic field within a noncommutative (NC) framework. A gauge-invariant NC Hamiltonian is derived, and the system is analyzed using the ladder-operator formalism, yielding deformed Landau levels and…
The two-dimensional graphene-like carbon allotrope, graphyne, has been recently fabricated and exhibits many interesting electronic properties. In this work, we investigate the thermoelectric properties of {\gamma}-graphyne by performing…
We have carried out a theoretical investigation of hot electron power loss $P$, involving electron-acoustic phonon interaction, as a function of twist angle $\theta$, electron temperature $T_e$ and electron density $n_s$ in twisted bilayer…
We study the energy and temperature relaxation of electrons in graphene on a piezoelectric substrate. Scattering from the combined potential of extrinsic piezoelectric surface acoustical (PA) phonons of the substrate and intrinsic…
Use of the extended definition of heat dQ=deQ+diQ converts the Clausius inequality dS greater than or equal to deQ/T0 into an equality dS=dQ/T involving the nonequilibrium temperature T of the system having the conventional interpretation…
The electron band structure of graphene on SrTiO3 substrate has been investigated as a function of temperature. The high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission study reveals that the spectral width at Fermi energy and the Fermi velocity of…
Using transient absorption (TA) microscopy as a hot electron thermometer we show disorder-assisted acoustic-phonon supercollisions (SCs) best describes the rate-limiting relaxation step in graphene over a wide range of lattice temperatures…
Thermalization in nonlinear systems is a central concept in statistical mechanics and has been extensively studied theoretically since the seminal work of Fermi, Pasta and Ulam (FPU). Using molecular dynamics and continuum modeling of a…
The measured frequencies and intensities of different first- and second- order Raman peaks of suspended graphene are used to show that optical phonons and different acoustic phonon polarizations are driven out of local equilibrium inside a…
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…
We have employed noise thermometry for investigations of thermal relaxation between the electrons and the substrate in nanowires patterned from 40-nm-thick titanium film on top of silicon wafers covered by a native oxide. By controlling the…
We study the equilibrium and near-equilibrium properties of a holographic five-dimensional model consisting of Einstein gravity coupled to a scalar field with a non-trivial potential. The dual four-dimensional gauge theory is not conformal…
We develop a theory of energy relaxation in semiconductors and insulators highly excited by the long-acting external irradiation. We derive the equation for the non-equilibrium distribution function of excited electrons. The solution for…
We report on electron cooling power measurements in few-layer graphene excited by Joule heating by means of a new setup combining electrical and optical probes of the electron and phonon baths temperatures. At low bias, noise thermometry…
The equilibrium optical phonons of graphene are well characterized in terms of anharmonicity and electron-phonon interactions, however their non-equilibrium properties in the presence of hot charge carriers are still not fully explored.…
Non-equilibrium transport and phonon branch-resolved size effects in single-layer graphene materials are studied under a multi-temperature kinetic model, which is developed for capturing the branch-dependent electron-phonon coupling.…
We report on the inelastic-scattering rate of electrons on phonons and relaxation of electron energy studied by means of magnetoconductance, and photoresponse, respectively, in a series of strongly disordered superconducting NbN films. The…
We study the dynamical thermoelectric transport in metals subjected to the electron-impurity and the electron-phonon interactions using the memory function formalism. We introduce a generalized Drude form for the Seebeck coefficient in…
We present an approach to the melting of graphene based on nucleation theory for a first order phase transition from the 2D solid to the 3D liquid via an intermediate quasi-2D liquid. The applicability of nucleation theory, supported by the…