• 文献标题:   Unconventional Terahertz Carrier Relaxation in Graphene Oxide: Observation of Enhanced Auger Recombination Due to Defect Saturation
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   KIM J, OH J, IN C, LEE YS, NORRIS TB, JUN SC, CHOI H
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, graphene oxide, auger recombination, defect saturation, percolation behavior, ultrafast opticalpump terahertzprobe spectroscopy
  • 出版物名称:   ACS NANO
  • ISSN:   1936-0851 EI 1936-086X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Yonsei Univ
  • 被引频次:   20
  • DOI:   10.1021/nn406066f
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

Photoexcited carrier relaxation is a recurring topic in understanding the transient conductivity dynamics of graphene-based devices. For atomically thin graphene oxide (GO), a simple free-carrier Drude response is expected to govern the terahertz (THz) conductivity dynamics same dynamics observed in conventional CVD-grown graphene. However, to date, no experimental testimony has been provided on the origin of photoinduced conductivity increase in GO. Here, using ultrafast THz spectroscopy, we show that the photoexcited carrier relaxation in GO exhibits a peculiar non-Drude behavior. Unlike graphene, the THz dynamics of GO show percolation behaviors: as the annealing temperature increases, transient THz conductivity rapidly increases and the associated carrier relaxation changes from mono- to biexponential decay. After saturating the recombination decay through defect trapping, a new ultrafast decay channel characterized by multiparticle Auger scattering is observed whose threshold pump fluence is found to be 50 mu J/cm(2). The increased conductivity is rapidly suppressed within 1 ps due to the Auger recombination, and non-Drude THz absorptions are subsequently emerged as a result of the defect-trapped high-frequency oscillators.