Ultrafast hole carrier relaxation dynamics in p-type CuO nanowires

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-5

  Othonos, Andreas ^a   Zervos, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Carrier dynamics; Cuo nanowires; Pump probe spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CARRIER DYNAMICS; CARRIER RELAXATION; EXPONENTIAL DECAYS; EXPONENTIAL RELAXATION; FAST RELAXATION; FEMTOSECOND PULSE EXCITATION; FLUENCE THRESHOLDS; HOLE CARRIERS; HOLE DYNAMICS; INTENSITY MEASUREMENTS; P-TYPE; PHOTOGENERATED CARRIERS; PHOTON ENERGY; PUMP-PROBE CONFIGURATION; PUMP-PROBE SPECTROSCOPY; REFLECTION MEASUREMENTS; STATE-FILLING; TIME CONSTANTS; TIME-CORRELATED SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING; TIME-SCALES; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPIES; ULTRA-FAST;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; EXCITED STATES; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOTONS; PROBES; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 84856052833     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-622     Document Type: Article

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