• 文献标题:   Highly efficient hot electron harvesting from graphene before electron-hole thermalization
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   CHEN YZ, LI YJ, ZHAO YD, ZHOU HZ, ZHU HM
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  • 出版物名称:   SCIENCE ADVANCES
  • ISSN:   2375-2548
  • 通讯作者地址:   Zhejiang Univ
  • 被引频次:   6
  • DOI:   10.1126/sciadv.aax9958
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

Although the unique hot carrier characteristics in graphene suggest a new paradigm for hot carrier-based energy harvesting, the reported efficiencies with conventional photothermoelectric and photothermionic emission pathways are quite low because of inevitable hot carrier thermalization and cooling loss. Here, we proposed and demonstrated the possibility of efficiently extracting hot electrons from graphene after carrier intraband scattering but before electron-hole interband thermalization, a new regime that has never been reached before. Using various layered semiconductors as model electron-accepting components, we generally observe ultrafast injection of energetic hot electrons from graphene over a very broad photon energy range (visible to mid-infrared). The injection quantum yield reaches as high as similar to 50%, depending on excitation energy but remarkably, not on fluence, in notable contrast with conventional pathways with nonlinear behavior. Hot electron harvesting in this regime prevails over energy and carrier loss and closely resembles the concept of hot carrier solar cell.