Momentum alignment of photoexcited carriers in graphene: The route to optovalleytronics
A linearly polarized excitation is shown to create a strongly anisotropic distribution of photoexcited carriers in graphene, where the momenta of photoexcited carriers are aligned preferentially normal to the polarization plane. This hitherto overlooked effect offers an experimental tool to genera...
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oai:animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph:faculty_research-81012022-10-19T01:11:30Z Momentum alignment of photoexcited carriers in graphene: The route to optovalleytronics Hartmann, Richard R. Portnoi, Mikhail E. A linearly polarized excitation is shown to create a strongly anisotropic distribution of photoexcited carriers in graphene, where the momenta of photoexcited carriers are aligned preferentially normal to the polarization plane. This hitherto overlooked effect offers an experimental tool to generate highly directional photoexcited carriers which could assist in the investigation of "directiondependant phenomena" in graphene-based nanostructures. The depolarization of hot photoluminescence (HPL) has been used with great success to study relaxation processes in conventional 2D systems. In such systems the alignment is due to the spin-orbit interaction for photoexcited holes, whereas in graphene, it is due to the pseudo-spin. Namely, the ratio of the two components of the spinor-like graphene wavefunction depends on the electron momentum which influences the optical transition selection rules. By comparing the depolarization from successive phonon replicas, the mechanisms for phonon relaxation in graphene can be studied. Furthermore, studying the depolarization of HPL in a magnetic field (the Hanle effect) allows one to obtain momentum relaxation times of hot electrons. The effect of momentum alignment in graphene provides a contact-free method of characterizing energy and momentum relaxation. Our analysis of momentum alignment in the high frequency regime shows that a linearly polarized excitation allows the spatial separation of carriers belonging to different valleys, therefore opening the door to an optical means of controlling valley polarization (optovalleytronics) and quantum computing in graphene 2011-01-12T08:00:00Z text https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/7395 Faculty Research Work Animo Repository Graphene Electronic excitation Relaxation phenomena Valleytronics Physics |
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A linearly polarized excitation is shown to create a strongly anisotropic distribution of photoexcited carriers in graphene, where the momenta of photoexcited carriers are aligned preferentially normal to the polarization plane. This hitherto overlooked effect offers an experimental tool to generate highly directional photoexcited carriers which could assist in the investigation of "directiondependant phenomena" in graphene-based nanostructures. The depolarization of hot photoluminescence (HPL) has been used with great success to study relaxation processes in conventional 2D systems. In such systems the alignment is due to the spin-orbit interaction for photoexcited holes, whereas in graphene, it is due to the pseudo-spin. Namely, the ratio of the two components of the spinor-like graphene wavefunction depends on the electron momentum which influences the optical transition selection rules. By comparing the depolarization from successive phonon replicas, the mechanisms for phonon relaxation in graphene can be studied. Furthermore, studying the depolarization of HPL in a magnetic field (the Hanle effect) allows one to obtain momentum relaxation times of hot electrons. The effect of momentum alignment in graphene provides a contact-free method of characterizing energy and momentum relaxation. Our analysis of momentum alignment in the high frequency regime shows that a linearly polarized excitation allows the spatial separation of carriers belonging to different valleys, therefore opening the door to an optical means of controlling valley polarization (optovalleytronics) and quantum computing in graphene |
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