Dresden 2017 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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HL: Fachverband Halbleiterphysik

HL 87: Carbon: Diamond and others

HL 87.8: Vortrag

Freitag, 24. März 2017, 11:45–12:00, POT 06

Ballistic and resonant negative photocurrents in single carbon nanotubes — •Carolina Duque Sierra, Christoph Karnetzky, Lukas Sponfeldner, Max Engl, and Alexander W. Holleitner — Walter Schottky Institute and Physics Department, Technical University of Munich, Am Coulombwall 4a, 85748 Garching, Germany

We present ultrafast photocurrent experiments on semiconducting, single-walled carbon nanotubes under a resonant optical excitation of their subbands. We demonstrate that a ballistic transport of the photogenerated charge carriers can be achieved. Moreover, thermionic emission processes to the contacts dominate the photocurrent. In contrast, the charge current without laser excitation is well described by a Fowler-Nordheim tunneling. The time-averaged photocurrent changes polarity as soon as sufficient charge carriers are injected from the contacts, which can be explained by an effective population inversion in the optically pumped subbands. We acknowledge the ERC via the project NanoREAL.