Near-infrared photoluminescence in the femtosecond time region in monolayer graphene on SiO2

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 2335-2343

  Koyama, Takeshi ^a   Ito, Yoshito ^b   Yoshida, Kazuma ^b   Tsuji, Masaharu ^b   Ago, Hiroki ^b   Kishida, Hideo ^a   Nakamura, Arao ^a,c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOYOTA PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

carrier cooling dynamics; carrier phonon interaction; femtosecond time resolved luminescence spectroscopy; monolayer graphene; photocarrier relaxation; photoluminescence

Indexed keywords

CARRIER COOLING; CARRIER-PHONON INTERACTION; FEMTOSECOND TIME-RESOLVED; LUMINESCENCE KINETICS; NEAR-INFRARED PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTOCARRIER; SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT; TWO TEMPERATURE MODEL;

COOLING; GRAPHENE; INFRARED DEVICES; MONOLAYERS; PHONONS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SPECTROSCOPY;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 84875685898     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn305558r     Document Type: Article

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