Competing ultrafast energy relaxation pathways in photoexcited graphene

Nano Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 5839-5845

  Jensen, S A ^a,b   Mics, Z ^a   Ivanov, I ^a   Varol, H S ^a   Turchinovich, D ^a   Koppens, F H L ^c   Bonn, M ^a   Tielrooij, K J ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^c ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Graphene; hot carrier; pump probe; terahertz; ultrafast

Indexed keywords

HOT CARRIERS;

ENERGY RELAXATION; PUMP-PROBE; TERA HERTZ; ULTRA-FAST;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84907877850     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl502740g     Document Type: Article

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