Multiple hot-carrier collection in photo-excited graphene Moiré superlattices

Science Advances

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Wu, Sanfeng ^a   Wang, Lei ^b   Lai, You ^c   Shan, Wen Yu ^d   Aivazian, Grant ^a   Zhang, Xian ^b   Taniguchi, Takashi ^e   Watanabe, Kenji ^e   Xiao, Di ^d   Dean, Cory ^b   Hone, James ^b   Li, Zhiqiang ^c   Xu, Xiaodong ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^f University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOT CARRIERS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

EMERGENT PHENOMENON; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; FLEXIBLE OPTOELECTRONICS; NERNST COEFFICIENTS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SHOCKLEY-QUEISSER LIMITS; SUPER-LATTICE STRUCTURES; VAN HOVE SINGULARITIES;

GRAPHENE;

GRAPHITE;

CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; PHOTON; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ELECTRONS; GRAPHITE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS;

EID: 85019016784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1600002     Document Type: Article

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