• 文献标题:   Hot Carrier Transport and Photocurrent Response in Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SONG JCW, RUDNER MS, MARCUS CM, LEVITOV LS
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, photocurrent, hot carrier, carrier multiplication, photothermoelectric
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984
  • 通讯作者地址:   MIT
  • 被引频次:   240
  • DOI:   10.1021/nl202318u
  • 出版年:   2011

▎ 摘  要

Strong electron electron interactions in graphene are expected to result in multiple-excitation generation by the absorption of a single photon. We show that the impact of carrier multiplication on photocurrent response is enhanced by very inefficient electron cooling, resulting in an abundance of hot carriers. The hot-carrier-mediated energy transport dominates the photoresponse and manifests itself in quantum efficiencies that can exceed unity, as well as in a characteristic dependence of the photocurrent on gate voltages. The pattern of multiple photocurrent sign changes as a function of gate voltage provides a fingerprint of hot-carrier-dominated transport and carrier multiplication.