Experimental verification of carrier multiplication in graphene

Nano Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 5371-5375

  Plotzing T ^a   Winzer, T ^b   Malic, E ^b   Neumaier, D ^c   Knorr, A ^b   Kurz, H ^a,c  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c AMO GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auger scattering; carrier multiplication; Graphene; relaxation dynamics

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

AUGER SCATTERING; CARRIER MULTIPLICATION; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; NON-EQUILIBRIUM CARRIERS; PUMP PROBE MEASUREMENT; RELAXATION DYNAMICS; ULTRAFAST RELAXATION DYNAMICS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 84914162406     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl502114w     Document Type: Article

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