• 文献标题:   Depletion of carriers and negative differential conductivity in intrinsic graphene under a dc electric field
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ROMANETS PN, VASKO FT
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   NAS Ukraine
  • 被引频次:   6
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.83.205427
  • 出版年:   2011

▎ 摘  要

The heating of carriers in an intrinsic graphene under abrupt switching on of a dc electric field is examined, taking into account both the energy relaxation via acoustic and optic phonons and the interband generation-recombination processes. The latter are caused by the interband transitions due to optical phonon modes and thermal radiation. A description of the temporal and steady-state responses, including the nonequilibrium concentration and energy as well as the current-voltage characteristics, is given. At room temperature, a nearly linear current-voltage characteristic and a slowly varied concentration occur for fields up to similar to 20 kV/cm. Because of a predominant recombination of high-energy carriers due to optical phonon emission at low temperatures, a depletion of concentration takes place below similar to 250 K. For lower temperatures the current tends to be saturated and a negative differential conductivity appears below similar to 170 K in the region of fields similar to 10 V/cm.