Probing near Dirac point electron-phonon interaction in graphene

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1713-1722

  Shang, Jingzhi ^a   Yan, Suxia ^b   Cong, Chunxiao ^a   Tan, Howe Siang ^a,b   Yu, Ting ^a,c,d   Gurzadyan, Gagik G ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d National University of Singapore   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER DYNAMICS; CARRIER RELAXATION; DECAY CHANNELS; DECAY TIME; DIFFERENTIAL TRANSMISSION; DIRAC POINT; ELECTRON PHONON SCATTERING; FEMTOSECOND PUMP PROBE SPECTROSCOPY; INTERBAND; MID-INFRARED REGIONS; PROBE FREQUENCY; PROBE PHOTONS; RELAXATION KINETICS; SLOW COMPONENT; TIME COMPONENTS; TRIPLE-RESONANCE; ULTRA-FAST;

PHONONS; PROBES;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84873469034     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.2.001713     Document Type: Article

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