Effects of Interlayer Coupling on Hot-Carrier Dynamics in Graphene-Derived van der Waals Heterostructures

Narang, Prineha; Zhao, Litao; Claybrook, Steven; Sundararaman, Ravishankar

doi:10.1002/adom.201600914

Title: Effects of Interlayer Coupling on Hot-Carrier Dynamics in Graphene-Derived van der Waals Heterostructures

Journal Article · 24 March 2017 · Advanced Optical Materials

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.201600914 · OSTI ID:1543462

Narang, Prineha ^[1]; Zhao, Litao ^[2]; Claybrook, Steven ^[2]; Sundararaman, Ravishankar ^[2]

Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY (United States)

Graphene exhibits promise as a plasmonic material with high mode confinement that could enable efficient hot carrier extraction. The lifetimes and mean free paths of energetic carriers have been investigated in free-standing graphene, graphite, and a heterostructure consisting of alternating graphene and hexagonal boron nitride layers using ab initio calculations of electron–electron and electron–phonon scattering in these materials. It is found that the extremely high lifetimes (3 ps) of low-energy carriers near the Dirac point in graphene, which are a 100 times larger than that in noble metals, are reduced by an order of magnitude due to interlayer coupling in graphite, but enhanced in the heterostructure due to phonon mode clamping. However, these lifetimes drop precipitously with increasing carrier energy and are smaller than those in noble metals at energies exceeding 0.5 eV. By analyzing the contribution of different scattering mechanisms and interlayer interactions, desirable spacer layer characteristics—high dielectric constant and heavy atoms—that could pave the way for plasmonic heterostructures with improved hot carrier transport have been identified.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC); Univ. of California, Oakland, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1543462

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1401286

Journal Information:: Advanced Optical Materials, Vol. 5, Issue 15; ISSN 2195-1071

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