• 文献标题:   Evidence for interlayer electronic coupling in multilayer epitaxial graphene from polarization-dependent coherently controlled photocurrent generation
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SUN D, RIOUX J, SIPE JE, ZOU Y, MIHNEV MT, BERGER C, DE HEER WA, FIRST PN, NORRIS TB
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Michigan
  • 被引频次:   17
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.85.165427
  • 出版年:   2012

▎ 摘  要

Most experimental studies to date of multilayer epitaxial graphene on C-face SiC have indicated that the electronic states of different layers are decoupled as a consequence of rotational stacking. We have measured the third-order nonlinear tensor in epitaxial graphene as a novel approach to probe interlayer electronic coupling, by studying THz emission from coherently controlled photocurrents as a function of the optical pump and THz beam polarizations. We find that the polarization dependence of the coherently controlled THz emission expected from perfectly uncoupled layers, i.e. a single graphene sheet, is not observed. We hypothesize that the observed angular dependence arises from weak coupling between the layers; a model calculation, treating the interlayer coupling as bilayer coupling with variable strength, qualitatively reproduces the polarization angular dependence, providing evidence for coupling.