Tânia M. Ribeiro , Tiago E.C. Magalhães , Bohdan Kulyk , Alexandre F. Carvalho , Sebastian Nilsson , Henrik Feuk , António J.S. Fernandes , Florinda Costa , Paulo T. Guerreiro , Helder Crespo
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Abstract
Graphene presents unique optoelectronic properties, making it attractive for the development of a wide range of new and advanced technological applications such as high-speed photodetectors and all-optical modulators. The study and control of the generated carriers in graphene, namely their ultrafast relaxation dynamics, are of great importance for these applications. Here, we report the ultrafast relaxation times of photogenerated carriers in few-layer graphene grown by microwave plasma chemical vapour deposition. Graphene samples with 3, 5 and 6 layers were studied by degenerate femtosecond optical pump-probe spectroscopy. We observed a fast relaxation constant on the order of and a slow relaxation constant below 1 ps, associated with carrier-carrier scattering and carrier-phonon scattering processes, respectively. These results suggest that small variations in the number of graphene layers do not affect the dynamics.
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The journal Carbon is an international multidisciplinary forum for communicating scientific advances in the field of carbon materials. It reports new findings related to the formation, structure, properties, behaviors, and technological applications of carbons. Carbons are a broad class of ordered or disordered solid phases composed primarily of elemental carbon, including but not limited to carbon black, carbon fibers and filaments, carbon nanotubes, diamond and diamond-like carbon, fullerenes, glassy carbon, graphite, graphene, graphene-oxide, porous carbons, pyrolytic carbon, and other sp2 and non-sp2 hybridized carbon systems. Carbon is the companion title to the open access journal Carbon Trends. Relevant application areas for carbon materials include biology and medicine, catalysis, electronic, optoelectronic, spintronic, high-frequency, and photonic devices, energy storage and conversion systems, environmental applications and water treatment, smart materials and systems, and structural and thermal applications.