Ultrafast carrier thermalization and cooling dynamics in few-layer MoS2

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 10931-10940

  Nie, Zhaogang ^a   Long, Run ^b,c   Sun, Linfeng ^d   Huang, Chung Che ^e   Zhang, Jun ^f,g   Xiong, Qihua ^f,g   Hewak, Daniel W ^e   Shen, Zexiang ^d,f,h   Prezhdo, Oleg V ^b   Loh, Zhi Heng ^a,f  

^a Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^f NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^g NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^h NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

carrier carrier scattering; carrier phonon scattering; MoS2; nonthermal; quantum kinetics; ultrafast dynamics

Indexed keywords

COOLING; LAYERED SEMICONDUCTORS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHONON SCATTERING;

CARRIER-CARRIER SCATTERING; CARRIER-PHONON SCATTERING; MOS2; NONTHERMAL; QUANTUM KINETIC; ULTRA-FAST DYNAMICS;

PHONONS;

EID: 84908432330     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn504760x     Document Type: Article

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