Time resolved terahertz spectroscopy of low frequency electronic resonances and optical pump-induced terahertz photoconductivity in reduced graphene oxide membrane

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Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 762-770

  Kar, Srabani ^a   Jayanthi, Swetha ^a   Freysz, Eric ^b   Sood, A K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHONONS; PUMPS;

LOW-FREQUENCY RESONANCE; OPTICAL PHONON EMISSION; PHOTOEXCITED CARRIERS; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES (RGO); TIME-DOMAIN TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRAFAST OPTOELECTRONICS; VAN HOVE SINGULARITIES;

TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84920481463     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2014.09.030     Document Type: Article

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