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Nano Lett. 2014 Mar 12;14(3):1504-7. doi: 10.1021/nl404730y. Epub 2014 Feb 24.

Anisotropy of excitation and relaxation of photogenerated charge carriers in graphene.

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Martin Mittendorff, Torben Winzer, Ermin Malic, Andreas Knorr, Claire Berger, Walter A de Heer, Harald Schneider, Manfred Helm, Stephan Winnerl

Affiliations

  1. Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, P.O. Box 510119, 01314 Dresden, Germany.

PMID: 24559191 DOI: 10.1021/nl404730y

Abstract

We present a pump-probe experiment on graphene, which reveals a pronounced dependence of the pump-induced transmission on the angle between pump and probe polarization. It reflects a strong anisotropy of the pump-induced occupation of photogenerated carriers in momentum space. Within 150 fs after excitation, an isotropic carrier distribution is established. The experiments are well described by microscopic modeling, which identifies carrier-phonon scattering to be the main relaxation mechanism giving rise to an isotropic carrier distribution.

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