2011
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.83.121404
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Hot phonon decay in supported and suspended exfoliated graphene

Abstract: Near infrared pump-probe spectroscopy has been used to measure the ultrafast dynamics of photoexcited charge carriers in monolayer and multilayer graphene. We observe two decay processes occurring on 100 fs and 2 ps timescales. The first is attributed to the rapid electron-phonon thermalisation in the system. The second timescale is found to be due to the slow decay of hot phonons. Using a simple theoretical model we calculate the hot phonon decay rate and show that it is significantly faster in monolayer flak… Show more

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“…Ultrafast laser measurements on graphene have afforded great insight into quasiparticle relaxation mechanisms and lifetimes in this material [1][2][3][4]. For example, it is now known that, after ultrafast photoexcitation of the electrons, energy relaxation occurs through mechanisms with markedly different time scales: first through energy redistribution by electron-electron scattering (∼10 fs), then thermalization with optical phonons (∼100 fs), and finally, anharmonic decay of optical phonons and/or coupling to substrate phonons (∼1 ps) [2][3][4]. More recently, ultrafast laser measurements have been used to probe the time scales of charge transfer to graphene from photoexcited adsorbed molecules [5].…”
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“…Ultrafast laser measurements on graphene have afforded great insight into quasiparticle relaxation mechanisms and lifetimes in this material [1][2][3][4]. For example, it is now known that, after ultrafast photoexcitation of the electrons, energy relaxation occurs through mechanisms with markedly different time scales: first through energy redistribution by electron-electron scattering (∼10 fs), then thermalization with optical phonons (∼100 fs), and finally, anharmonic decay of optical phonons and/or coupling to substrate phonons (∼1 ps) [2][3][4]. More recently, ultrafast laser measurements have been used to probe the time scales of charge transfer to graphene from photoexcited adsorbed molecules [5].…”
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“…We show the time scale of the relaxation associated with oxygen desorption to be ∼100 fs, suggesting the desorption proceeds through hot electron generation in the graphene rather than heating of the lattice through hot phonon generation. Ultrafast laser measurements on graphene have afforded great insight into quasiparticle relaxation mechanisms and lifetimes in this material [1][2][3][4]. For example, it is now known that, after ultrafast photoexcitation of the electrons, energy relaxation occurs through mechanisms with markedly different time scales: first through energy redistribution by electron-electron scattering (∼10 fs), then thermalization with optical phonons (∼100 fs), and finally, anharmonic decay of optical phonons and/or coupling to substrate phonons (∼1 ps) [2][3][4].…”
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“…In addition, the third order nonlinear optical responses associated with saturable absorption of graphene [42][43][44], few-layer graphite films [10,[43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56], and suspensions of graphene flakes [57] have been measured and timeresolved using a variety of pump-probe configurations. Typically, in these experiments, the interband absorption of the pump pulse produces nonequilibrium electron and hole populations, which subsequently relax by carrier-carrier scattering, phonon emission, diffusion and recombination.…”
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“…Pump-probe spectroscopy has been extensively employed to investigate relaxation processes in carbon-based materials: a variety of different samples have been studied, including thin graphite 13 , few- [14][15][16] and multi-layer 17 graphene, but very few did experiments on single-layer graphene (SLG) [18][19][20][21] . Furthermore, the temporal resolution reported in earlier literature, either in degenerate (i.e., pump and probe with same photon energy) or two-colour pump-probe, was in most cases Z100 fs [14][15][16][17][18]21 . This prevented the direct observation of the intrinsically fast e-e scattering processes.…”
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