Current relaxation due to hot carrier scattering in graphene

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 14, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Sun, Dong ^a,e   Divin, Charles ^a   Mihnev, Momchil ^a   Winzer, Torben ^b   Malic, Ermin ^b   Knorr, Andreas ^b   Sipe, John E ^c   Berger, Claire ^d   De Heer, Walt A ^d   First, Phillip N ^d   Norris, Theodore B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER SCATTERING; COHERENT CONTROL; CURRENT DAMPING; CURRENT SURGES; DIRAC FERMIONS; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; HIGH-SPEED; MICROSCOPIC THEORY; NONCONSERVATION; PUMP PULSE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; THERMAL CARRIERS; THZ RADIATION; TIME DOMAIN; ULTRASHORT OPTICAL PULSE; VARIABLE DELAYS;

DAMPING; ELECTRON SCATTERING; GRAPHENE; OPTICAL PUMPING; TERAHERTZ WAVES;

HOT CARRIERS;

EID: 84868033715     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/14/10/105012     Document Type: Article

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