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The heating of carriers in an intrinsic graphene under an abrupt switching off a dc electric field is examined taking into account both the energy relaxation via acoustic and optic phonons and the interband generation-recombination…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 P. N. Romanets , F. T. Vasko

One of the salient features of graphene is the very high carrier mobility that implies tremendous potential for use in electronic devices. Unfortunately, transport measurements find the expected high mobility only in freely suspended…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Søren Ulstrup , Marco Bianchi , Richard Hatch , Dandan Guan , Alessandro Baraldi , Dario Alfè , Liv Hornekær , Philip Hofmann

The discovery of unusual heat conduction properties of graphene has led to a surge of theoretical and experimental studies of phonon transport in two-dimensional material systems. The rapidly developing graphene thermal field spans from…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-01 Denis L. Nika , Alexander A. Balandin

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

Energy transfer to acoustic phonons is the dominant low-temperature cooling channel of electrons in a crystal.For cold neutral graphene we find that the weak cooling power of its acoustical modes relative to the heat capacity of the system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 R. Bistritzer , A. H. MacDonald

We present a numerical study on the intraband optical conductivity of hot carriers at quasi-equilibria in photoexcited graphene based on the semiclassical Boltzmann transport equations (BTE) with the aim of understanding the effects of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Masatsugu Yamashita , Chiko Otani

Near infrared pump-probe spectroscopy has been used to measure the ultrafast dynamics of photoexcited charge carriers in monolayer and multilayer graphene. We observe two decay processes occurring on 100 fs and 2 ps timescales. The first is…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 P. J. Hale , S. M. Hornett , J. Moger , D. W. Horsell , E. Hendry

We report an optical study of charge transport in graphene. Diffusion of hot carriers in epitaxial graphene and reduced graphene oxide samples are studied using an ultrafast pump-probe technique with a high spatial resolution.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Brian A. Ruzicka , Shuai Wang , Lalani K. Werake , Ben Weintrub , Kian Ping Loh , Hui Zhao

In recent years, phonon electron carrier dragging has emerged as an innovative approach for modulating energy transfer in low dimensional systems. In this Letter, we explore the fundamental mechanisms of electron-phonon coupling and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Houssem Rezgui

For many of the envisioned optoelectronic applications of graphene it is crucial to understand the sub-picosecond carrier dynamics immediately following photoexcitation, as well as the effect on the electrical conductivity - the…

Being used in optoelectronic devices as ultra-thin conductor-insulator junctions, detailed investigations are needed about how exactly h-BN and graphene hybridize. Here, we present a comprehensive ab initio study of hot carrier dynamics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-01 Sangkha Borah , Dinesh Yadav , Maxim Trushin , Fabian Pauly

We perform a femtosecond-THz optical pump-probe spectroscopy to investigate the cooling dynamics of hot carriers in quasi-free standing bilayer epitaxial graphene. We observed longer decay time constants, in the range of 2.6 to 6.4 ps,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-03 Sachin Sharma , Rachael L. Myers-Ward , David Kurt Gaskill , Ioannis Chatzakis

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…

Hot carriers in a doped graphene under dc electric field is described taking into account the intraband energy relaxation due to acoustic phonon scattering and the interband generation-recombination transitions caused by thermal radiation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-04 Oleg G. Balev , Fedir T. Vasko

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

The nonequilibrium dynamics of carriers and phonons in graphene is investigated by solving the microscopic kinetic equations with the carrier-phonon and carrier-carrier Coulomb scatterings explicitly included. The Fermi distribution of hot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-15 B. Y. Sun , Y. Zhou , M. W. Wu

Self-heating is a severe problem for high-power microelectronic devices. Graphene and few-layer graphene have attracted tremendous attention for heat removal thanks to their extraordinarily high in-plane thermal conductivity. However, this…

We predict that graphene is a unique system where disorder-assisted scattering (supercollisions) dominates electron-lattice cooling over a wide range of temperatures, up to room temperature. This is so because for momentum-conserving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-21 Justin C. W. Song , Michael Y. Reizer , Leonid S. Levitov

Controlling energy flows in solids through switchable electron-lattice cooling can grant access to a range of interesting and potentially useful energy transport phenomena. Here we discuss a unique switchable electron-lattice cooling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-26 Jian Feng Kong , Leonid Levitov , Dorri Halbertal , Eli Zeldov

Phonon carrier interactions can have significant impact on device performance. They can be probed by measuring the phonon lifetime, which reflects the interaction strength of a phonon with other quasi-particles in particular charge carriers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-13 Dong-Hun Chae , Benjamin Krauss , Klaus von Klitzing , Jurgen H. Smet