Unconventional double-bended saturation of carrier occupation in optically excited graphene due to many-particle interactions

Saturable absorption, a technologically relevant property of graphene, is usually explained with Pauli blocking of optically driven carriers in the strong-excitation regime. Here, Winzeret al. reveal a new saturation regime at low excitations, resulting in a double-bended saturation behaviour.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Torben Winzer, Martin Mittendorff, Stephan Winnerl, Henry Mittenzwey, Roland Jago, Manfred Helm, Ermin Malic, Andreas Knorr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15042