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DS: Fachverband Dünne Schichten

DS 30: Transport: Graphene
(Joint session of DS, DY, HL, MA, O and TT, organized by TT)

DS 30.1: Invited Talk

Wednesday, March 9, 2016, 09:30–10:00, H22

Ultrafast photo-thermoelectric currents in graphene — •Alexander Holleitner — Walter Schottky Institut and Physics Department, Technical University of Munich, Am Coulombwall 4a, D-85748 Garching, Germany.

We show that photo-thermoelectric currents occur on a picosecond time-scale in graphene [1]. To this end, we apply an on-chip pump/probe photocurrent spectroscopy [2,3] to double-gated junctions of graphene. Our experiments reveal the interplay of photogenerated hot electrons with so-called photovoltaic currents. Moreover, we demonstrate that hot electrons allow to read-out an ultrafast non-radiative energy transfer from fluorescent emitters, namely nitrogen-vacancy centers in nano-diamonds. The non-radiative energy transfer can be exploited as an ultrafast, electronic read-out process of the electron spin in nitrogen vacancy centers in the diamond nanocrystals. The detection gives access to fast energy transfer processes, which have not yet been observed by fluorescence measurements because of quenching of the optical signal for short transfer distances [4].

We thank A. Brenneis, F. Schade, L. Gaudreau, M. Seifert, H. Karl, M.S. Brandt, H. Huebl, J.A. Garrido, F.H.L. Koppens, for a very fruitful collaboration, and the ERC-grant ‘NanoREAL’ for financial support.
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