Transient Rayleigh scattering: A new probe of picosecond carrier dynamics in a single semiconductor nanowire

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 5389-5395

  Montazeri, Mohammad ^a   Jackson, Howard E ^a   Smith, Leigh M ^a   Yarrison Rice, Jan M ^b   Kang, Jung Hyun ^c   Gao, Qiang ^c   Tan, Hark Hoe ^c   Jagadish, Chennupati ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

carrier cooling; carrier dynamics; Nanowire; transient Rayleigh scattering

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PHONONS; AMBIPOLAR TRANSPORT; BAND FILLINGS; BAND GAP RENORMALIZATION; BIMOLECULAR RECOMBINATION; CARRIER COOLING; CARRIER DYNAMICS; COMPLEX INDEX OF REFRACTION; CORE-SHELL; DECAY CONSTANTS; ELECTRON HOLE PLASMA; ELECTRONS AND HOLES; ENERGY-LOSS RATE; FUNCTION OF TIME; GAAS/ALGAAS; IMAGINARY PARTS; INTENSE LASER PULSE; LATTICE TEMPERATURES; PICOSECONDS; PLASMA SCREENING; PULSED EXCITATION; RAYLEIGH; SCATTERING CROSS SECTION; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRE; SPECTRAL DEPENDENCES; TIME EVOLUTIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; NANOWIRES; PHOTOEXCITATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

RAYLEIGH SCATTERING;

EID: 84867477847     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl302767u     Document Type: Article

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