Energy relaxation in graphene and its measurement with supercurrent
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Physical Review B, Volume 84, issue 4, pp. 1-10
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We study inelastic energy relaxation in graphene for low energies to find out how electrons scatter with acoustic phonons and other electrons. By coupling the graphene to superconductors, we create a strong dependence of the measured signal, i.e., critical Josephson current, on the electron population on different energy states. Since the relative population of high- and low-energy states is determined by the inelastic scattering processes, the critical current becomes an effective probe for their strength. We argue that the electron-electron interaction is the dominant relaxation method and we estimate a scattering time τe−e=0.1…1 ps at T=500 mK, 1-2 orders of magnitude smaller than predicted for normal two-dimensional diffusive systems.Description
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Voutilainen, J, Fay, A, Häkkinen, P, Viljas, J K, Heikkilä, T T & Hakonen, P J 2011, 'Energy relaxation in graphene and its measurement with supercurrent', Physical Review B, vol. 84, no. 4, 045419, pp. 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.84.045419