Photo-excited charge carriers suppress sub-terahertz phonon mode in silicon at room temperature

Liao, Bolin; Maznev, A. A.; Nelson, Keith A.; Chen, Gang

doi:10.1038/ncomms13174

Title: Photo-excited charge carriers suppress sub-terahertz phonon mode in silicon at room temperature

Journal Article · Wed Oct 12 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13174· OSTI ID:1393401

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Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry

There is a growing interest in the mode-by-mode understanding of electron and phonon transport for improving energy conversion technologies, such as thermoelectrics and photovoltaics. Whereas remarkable progress has been made in probing phonon–phonon interactions, it has been a challenge to directly measure electron–phonon interactions at the single-mode level, especially their effect on phonon transport above cryogenic temperatures. Here in this paper, we use three-pulse photoacoustic spectroscopy to investigate the damping of a single sub-terahertz coherent phonon mode by free charge carriers in silicon at room temperature. Building on conventional pump–probe photoacoustic spectroscopy, we introduce an additional laser pulse to optically generate charge carriers, and carefully design temporal sequence of the three pulses to unambiguously quantify the scattering rate of a single-phonon mode due to the electron–phonon interaction. Our results confirm predictions from first-principles simulations and indicate the importance of the often-neglected effect of electron–phonon interaction on phonon transport in doped semiconductors.

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Research Organization:: Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-09ER46577; SC0001299

OSTI ID:: 1393401

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Vol. 7; ISSN 2041-1723

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