• 文献标题:   Hot carrier relaxation of Dirac fermions in bilayer epitaxial graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   HUANG J, ALEXANDERWEBBER JA, JANSSEN TJBM, TZALENCHUK A, YAGER T, LARAAVILA S, KUBATKIN S, MYERSWARD RL, WHEELER VD, GASKILL DK, NICHOLAS RJ
  • 作者关键词:   hot carrier, bilayer graphene, energy loss rate, magnetotransport
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF PHYSICSCONDENSED MATTER
  • ISSN:   0953-8984 EI 1361-648X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Oxford
  • 被引频次:   18
  • DOI:   10.1088/0953-8984/27/16/164202
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

Energy relaxation of hot Dirac fermions in bilayer epitaxial graphene is experimentally investigated by magnetotransport measurements on Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations and weak localization. The hot-electron energy loss rate is found to follow the predicted Bloch-Gruneisen power-law behaviour of T-4 at carrier temperatures from 1.4K up to similar to 100 K, due to electron-acoustic phonon interactions with a deformation potential coupling constant of 22 eV. A carrier density dependence n(e)(-1.5) in the scaling of the T-4 power law is observed in bilayer graphene, in contrast to the n(e)(-0.5) dependence in monolayer graphene, leading to a crossover in the energy loss rate as a function of carrier density between these two systems. The electron-phonon relaxation time in bilayer graphene is also shown to be strongly carrier density dependent, while it remains constant for a wide range of carrier densities in monolayer graphene. Our results and comparisons between the bilayer and monolayer exhibit a more comprehensive picture of hot carrier dynamics in graphene systems.