Journal
NANO LETTERS
Volume 13, Issue 12, Pages 5925-5930Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nl402978s
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Graphene nanoribbon; carbon nanotube; THz time-domain spectroscopy; photoconductivity; charge carrier dynamics
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- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO)
- ERC
- DFG [SPP 1459]
- EU
- Max Planck Society
- Danish Council for Independent Research-Technology and Production Sciences (FTP)
- EU [334324 LIGHTER]
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We present a comparative study of the ultrafast photoconductivity in two different forms of one-dimensional (1D) quantum-confined graphene nanostructures: structurally well-defined semiconducting graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) fabricated by a bottom-up chemical synthesis approach and semiconducting carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with a similar bandgap energy. Transient photoconductivities of both materials were measured using time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy, allowing for contact-free measurements of complex-valued photoconductivity spectra with subpicosecond time-resolution. We show that, while the THz photoresponse seems very different for the two systems, a single model of free carriers experiencing backscattering when moving along the long axis of the CNTs or GNRs provides a quantitative description of both sets of results, revealing significantly longer carrier scattering times for CNTs (ca. 150 fs) than for GNRs (ca. 30 fs) and in turn higher carrier mobilities. This difference can be explained by differences in band structures and phonon scattering and the greater structural rigidity of CNTs as compared to GNRs, minimizing the influence of bending and/or torsional defects on the electron transport.
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