Increased responsivity of suspended graphene photodetectors

Nano Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1644-1648

  Freitag, Marcus ^a   Low, Tony ^a   Avouris, Phaedon ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

electron cooling; Graphene; hot electron; p n junction; photodetector; surface polar phonon

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC ENGINEERING; ELECTRON COOLING; ELECTRONIC SUBSYSTEMS; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; P-N JUNCTION; PHOTO-THERMOELECTRIC; PHOTOEXCITED CARRIERS; SUPPORTED STRUCTURES;

HOT ELECTRONS; PHONONS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTOEXCITATION; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS;

GRAPHENE;

GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL;

CHEMISTRY; ELECTRONICS; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE TRANSITION; SURFACE PROPERTY; ARTICLE;

ELECTRONICS; GRAPHITE; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE TRANSITION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84876052202     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl4001037     Document Type: Article

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