Title
First-principles calculation of hot carriers in black phosphorus
Date Issued
26 June 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Institute of Physics Publishing
Abstract
Black Phosphorus (BP), a layered semiconductor, has atracted enormous attention due to its singular anisotropic electronic, optical and thickness-dependent direct bandgap properties. As a consequence, BP has been envisioned as a promising material for several technological applications including photonics electronics and optolectronics. Nonetheless, most of the materials that integrate these devices undergo scattering and decay processes that are governed by quantum mechanical effects. From this point of view, the correct understanding and prediction of hot carriers dynamics in prospective materials as BP is crucial for its succesfull integration in future technology. In this work, based on ab initio calculations, we study the carrier relaxation rates in BP. Thus, the electron-electron and electron-phonon scattering contributions are investigated. Our results suggest that for the near-infrared and visible light spectrum [1.5 to 3.5 eV], the carriers in BP follow an ultrafast dynamics with relaxation times of the order of few to tens of femtoseconds while for the far-infrared range the relaxation times is of the order of hundreds of femtoseconds. Our reults are consistent with previous studies of pump-probe measurements on carrier dynamics.
Volume
1558
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Química física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85088144050
Source
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
ISSN of the container
17426588
Conference
17th Meeting of Physics Lima 15 August 2018 through 17 August 2018
Sponsor(s)
CEPV acknowledges the financial support from the Brazilian agency FAPESP grant number 2015/14899-0 and 2012/24227-1. A. R. R. acknowledges support from ICTP-SAIRF (FAPESP project 2011/11973-4) and the ICTP-Simons Foundation Associate Scheme. This work uses the computational resources from GRID-UNESP and CENAPAD/SP.
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