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Transient absorption and photocurrent microscopy show that hot electron supercollisions describe the rate-limiting relaxation step in graphene

Cornell Affiliated Author(s)

Author

M.W. Graham
S.-F. Shi
Z. Wang
D.C. Ralph
J. Park
P.L. McEuen

Abstract

Using transient absorption (TA) microscopy as a hot electron thermometer, we show that disorder-assisted acoustic-phonon supercollisions (SCs) best describe the rate-limiting relaxation step in graphene over a wide range of lattice temperatures (Tl = 5-300 K), Fermi energies (EF = ± 0.35 eV), and optical probe energies (∼0.3-1.1 eV). Comparison with simultaneously collected transient photocurrent, an independent hot electron thermometer, confirms that the rate-limiting optical and electrical response in graphene are best described by the SC-heat dissipation rate model, H = A(T e3 - Tl3). Our data further show that the electron cooling rate in substrate-supported graphene is twice as fast as in suspended graphene sheets, consistent with SC model prediction for disorder. © 2013 American Chemical Society.

Date Published

Journal

Nano Letters

Volume

13

Issue

11

Number of Pages

5497-5502,

URL

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84887854550&doi=10.1021%2fnl4030787&partnerID=40&md5=6dfa6ac2599e6b6efd4404fa6c8d502c

DOI

10.1021/nl4030787

Group (Lab)

Paul McEuen Group

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