• 文献标题:   High-field response of gated graphene at terahertz frequencies
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   RAZAVIPOUR H, YANG WN, GUERMOUNE A, HILKE M, COOKE DG, ALNAIB I, DIGNAM MM, BLANCHARD F, HAFEZ HA, CHAI X, FERACHOU D, OZAKI T, LEVESQUE PL, MARTEL R
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121 EI 1550-235X
  • 通讯作者地址:   McGill Univ
  • 被引频次:   13
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.92.245421
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

We study the Fermi energy level dependence of the nonlinear terahertz (THz) transmission of gated multilayer and single-layer graphene transferred onto sapphire and quartz substrates. The two samples represent two limits of low-field impurity scattering: short-range neutral and long-range charged impurity scattering, respectively. We observe an increase in the transmission as the field amplitude is increased due to intraband absorption bleaching starting at THz fields above 8 kV/cm. This effect arises from a field-induced reduction in THz conductivity that depends strongly on the Fermi energy. We account for intraband absorption using a free carrier Drude model that includes neutral and charged impurity scattering as well as optical phonon scattering. We find that although the Fermi-level dependence in the monolayer and five-layer samples is quite different due to the dominance of long- and short-range momentum scattering, respectively, both exhibit a strong dependence on the field amplitude that cannot be explained on the basis of an increase in the lattice temperature alone. Our results provide a deeper understanding of transport in graphene devices operating at THz frequencies and in modest kV/cm field strengths where nonlinearities exist.