Electronic cooling via interlayer Coulomb coupling in multilayer epitaxial graphene

Mihnev, Momchil T.; Tolsma, John R.; Divin, Charles J.; Sun, Dong; Asgari, Reza; Polini, Marco; Berger, Claire; de Heer, Walt A.; MacDonald, Allan H.; Norris, Theodore B.

doi:10.1038/ncomms9105

Electronic cooling via interlayer Coulomb coupling in multilayer epitaxial graphene

Journal Article · Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9105· OSTI ID:1624000

Mihnev, Momchil T. ^[1]; Tolsma, John R. ^[2]; Divin, Charles J. ^[3]; Sun, Dong ^[4]; Asgari, Reza ^[5]; Polini, Marco ^[6]; Berger, Claire ^[7]; de Heer, Walt A. ^[8]; MacDonald, Allan H. ^[2]; Norris, Theodore B. ^[3]

Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States); DOE/OSTI
Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States); Peking Univ., Beijing (China)
Inst. for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran (Iran)
Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR and Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy); Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova (Italy)
Inst. Neel, Grenoble (France); Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)
King Abdulaziz Univ., Jeddah (Saudi Arabia)

In van der Waals bonded or rotationally disordered multilayer stacks of two-dimensional (2D) materials, the electronic states remain tightly confined within individual 2D layers. As a result, electron–phonon interactions occur primarily within layers and interlayer electrical conductivities are low. In addition, strong covalent in-plane intralayer bonding combined with weak van der Waals interlayer bonding results in weak phonon-mediated thermal coupling between the layers. We demonstrate here, however, that Coulomb interactions between electrons in different layers of multilayer epitaxial graphene provide an important mechanism for interlayer thermal transport, even though all electronic states are strongly confined within individual 2D layers. This effect is manifested in the relaxation dynamics of hot carriers in ultrafast time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy. We develop a theory of interlayer Coulomb coupling containing no free parameters that accounts for the experimentally observed trends in hot-carrier dynamics as temperature and the number of layers is varied.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFSOR); EC Graphene Flagship Program; European Commission; National Science Foundation (NSF); Progetti Premiali 2012; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; Welch Foundation

Grant/Contract Number:: FG03-02ER45958

OSTI ID:: 1624000

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Journal Name: Nature Communications Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 6; ISSN 2041-1723

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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