Ultrafast hot-carrier-dominated photocurrent in graphene

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 114-118

  Sun, Dong ^a   Aivazian, Grant ^a   Jones, Aaron M ^a   Ross, Jason S ^b   Yao, Wang ^c   Cobden, David ^a   Xu, Xiaodong ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HOT CARRIERS; IMPACT IONIZATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; PHOTOCURRENTS; PULSED LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODES; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

BUILT-IN ELECTRIC FIELDS; GRAPHENE P-N JUNCTIONS; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY; HIGH SPEED OPTICAL MODULATOR; PHOTOCURRENT RESPONSE; PHOTOEXCITED CARRIERS; PUMP PROBE MEASUREMENT; TIME-RESOLVED SCANNING;

GRAPHENE;

GRAPHENE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ENERGY TRANSFER; IONIZATION; PHONON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAFAST HOT CARRIER DOMINATED PHOTOCURRENT;

EID: 84862777523     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2011.243     Document Type: Article

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