• 文献标题:   Hot-Carrier Seebeck Effect: Diffusion and Remote Detection of Hot Carriers in Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SIERRA JF, NEUMANN I, COSTACHE MV, VALENZUELA SO
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, seebeck effect, hot carrier, electronphonon interaction, supercollision
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   ICN2 Inst Catala Nanociencia Nanotecnol
  • 被引频次:   16
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b00922
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

We investigate hot Carrier propagation across graphene using an electrical nonlocal injection/detection method. The device consists of a monolayer graphene flake, contacted by multiple metal leads. Using two remote leads for electrical heating, we generate a carrier temperature gradient that results in a measurable thermoelectric voltage V-NL across the remaining (detector) leads. Due to the nonlocal character, of the measurement, VNL is exclusively due to the Seebeck effect. Remarkably, a departure from The Ordinary relationship between Joule power P and V-NL, V-NL similar to P, becomes readily apparent at low temperatures, representing a finger,print of hot-carrier dominated thermoelectricity. By studying V-NL as a function of bias, we directly determine the carrier temperature and the characteristic cooling length for hot-carrier propagation, which are key parameters, for a variety of new applications that rely on hot-carrier transport.