• 文献标题:   Carrier Dynamics in Graphene: Ultrafast Many-Particle Phenomena
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   MALIC E, WINZER T, WENDLER F, BREM S, JAGO R, KNORR A, MITTENDORFF M, KONIGOTTO JC, PLOTZING T, NEUMAIER D, SCHNEIDER H, HELM M, WINNERL S
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, carrier dynamic, carrier multiplication, population inversion
  • 出版物名称:   ANNALEN DER PHYSIK
  • ISSN:   0003-3804 EI 1521-3889
  • 通讯作者地址:   Chalmers Univ Technol
  • 被引频次:   8
  • DOI:   10.1002/andp.201700038
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

Graphene is an ideal material to study fundamental Coulomb- and phonon-induced carrier scattering processes. Its remarkable gapless and linear band structure opens up new carrier relaxation channels. In particular, Auger scattering bridging the valence and the conduction band changes the number of charge carriers and gives rise to a significant carrier multiplication - an ultrafast many-particle phenomenon that is promising for the design of highly efficient photodetectors. Furthermore, the vanishing density of states at the Dirac point combined with ultrafast phonon-induced intraband scattering results in an accumulation of carriers and a population inversion suggesting the design of graphene-based terahertz lasers. Here, we review our work on the ultrafast carrier dynamics in graphene and Landau-quantized graphene is presented providing a microscopic view on the appearance of carrier multiplication and population inversion.