• DocumentCode
    547071
  • Title

    Very slow carrier cooling in graphene measured by optical/THz pump-probe spectroscopy

  • Author

    Strait, Jared ; Wang, Haining ; Shivaraman, Shriram ; Shields, Virgil ; Spencer, Michael ; Rana, Farhan

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We present results on the relaxation dynamics of photoexcited carriers in graphene using optical-pump terahertz-probe spectroscopy. Our measurements indicate that carrier cooling is extremely slow at low temperatures where electron-optical phonon cooling becomes inefficient.
  • Keywords
    carrier relaxation time; electron-phonon interactions; graphene; high-speed optical techniques; terahertz wave spectra; C; electron-optical phonon cooling; graphene; optical-THz pump-probe spectroscopy; photoexcited carriers; relaxation dynamics; slow carrier cooling; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Optical scattering; Optical variables measurement; Phonons; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5951610